Movies Quotes by Sydney Pollack

9 Movies quotes by Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack contributes nine short reflections that capture his seasoned view of cinema. The collection is a concise taste of his wisdom.

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

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I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

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It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

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

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

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

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I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned…

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

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People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either.…

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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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It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.

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You are not an active creator of the film.

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

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There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.

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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…

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