Sydney Pollack

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with…

— Sydney Pollack

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire...…

— Sydney Pollack

Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's…

— Sydney Pollack

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than…

— Sydney Pollack

I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.

— Sydney Pollack

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

— Sydney Pollack

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but…

— Sydney Pollack

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning…

— Sydney Pollack

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

— Sydney Pollack