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
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 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 mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,… — 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
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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share
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 Copy Share
