I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling -… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either.… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space.… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
