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
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. — 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
All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. — 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
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
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
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
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
It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. — 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
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. — 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
