When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are… — 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… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that… — 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
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're… — 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
I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal… — 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
