Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. — 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… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or… — 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
It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only… — 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
