I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less 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
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 don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever,… — 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 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
Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a… — 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
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
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
If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
