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
All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. — 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
You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. — 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
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
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
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 learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned… — 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
Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together… — 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
All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you,… — 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
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
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies… — 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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