People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. — 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
There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with… — 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 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
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's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn… — 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
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world. — 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
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. People talk about Three… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make 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
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