I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces. — 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 that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an… — 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
