Sydney Pollack Quotes

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

~ Sydney Pollack

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

~ Sydney Pollack

My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.

~ Sydney Pollack

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

~ Sydney Pollack

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

~ Sydney Pollack

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

~ Sydney Pollack

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

~ Sydney Pollack

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. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

~ Sydney Pollack

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

~ Sydney Pollack

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

~ Sydney Pollack

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

~ Sydney Pollack

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

~ Sydney Pollack

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

~ Sydney Pollack

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

~ Sydney Pollack

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

~ Sydney Pollack

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

~ Sydney Pollack

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

~ Sydney Pollack