Actor Director Quotes by Sydney Pollack

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

— Sydney Pollack

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

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

— Sydney Pollack

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

— Sydney Pollack

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

— Sydney Pollack

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

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

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

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

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

I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

— Sydney Pollack

You are not an active creator of the film.

— Sydney Pollack

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

There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.

— Sydney Pollack

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