Sydney Pollack

Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.

— Sydney Pollack

I am not a visual innovator.

— Sydney Pollack

You have to go by your instincts in casting.

— Sydney Pollack

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

— Sydney Pollack

You are not an active creator of the film.

— Sydney Pollack

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

— Sydney Pollack

There's no money in documentaries.

— Sydney Pollack

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

— Sydney Pollack

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

— Sydney Pollack

There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways.

— Sydney Pollack

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

— Sydney Pollack

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

— Sydney Pollack

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

— Sydney Pollack

I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.

— Sydney Pollack

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

— Sydney Pollack

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

— Sydney Pollack

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't…

— Sydney Pollack

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with…

— Sydney Pollack

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

I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.

— Sydney Pollack

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are…

— Sydney Pollack

Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

— Sydney Pollack

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of…

— Sydney Pollack

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You…

— Sydney Pollack

Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because…

— Sydney Pollack

This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story…

— Sydney Pollack

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be…

— Sydney Pollack

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and…

— Sydney Pollack

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

I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for…

— Sydney Pollack

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic…

— Sydney Pollack

I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or…

— Sydney Pollack

I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. People talk about Three…

— Sydney Pollack

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal…

— Sydney Pollack

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

— Sydney Pollack

I don't care much about acting.

— Sydney Pollack

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

— Sydney Pollack

Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.

— Sydney Pollack

I love having made a movie.

— Sydney Pollack

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

— Sydney Pollack