Film Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

— Sydney Pollack

You are not an active creator of the film.

— Sydney Pollack

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

— Sydney Pollack

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

— Sydney Pollack

I love having made a movie.

— Sydney Pollack

I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

— Sydney Pollack

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

— Sydney Pollack

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

— Sydney Pollack

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

— Sydney Pollack

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

— Sydney Pollack

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

— Sydney Pollack

I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.

— Sydney Pollack

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

— Sydney Pollack

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

It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If…

— Sydney Pollack

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

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

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

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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

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

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

I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a…

— Sydney Pollack

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

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But…

— Sydney Pollack

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the…

— 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…

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Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you,…

— Sydney Pollack

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which…

— 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

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

— Sydney Pollack

All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in.

— Sydney Pollack

At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and…

— Sydney Pollack

The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling -…

— Sydney Pollack

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,…

— Sydney Pollack

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

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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

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

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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

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