66 Sydney Pollack Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sydney Pollack

American Director

Born: Jul 1, 1934

Died: May 26, 2008

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

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

Politics Business Become Think Shame Terrible Show Show Business

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. Sydney Pollack

Truth People Think Telling Telling The Truth Never Wrong Go Really

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy. Sydney Pollack

Needs Every Lousy Suspense Story Element

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.' Sydney Pollack

Home You Nice Bend Phrase Town Know South Even Homesick

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. Sydney Pollack

You People World Made Big Stars Think Films Everybody Mine More Fooled Studios Along Like Identified Another Go Off Wonder Personal Maybe Just Form Which Them Hollywood Thinks Career

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. Sydney Pollack

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 what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is. Sydney Pollack

Day You Accidents Crew Exactly Costs Feature Know Documentary Because Shooting Going Gold Where Want Happen Sensitive

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. Sydney Pollack

Believe Living Enough Able Make Lucky Actor Ever

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. Sydney Pollack

People College Never Envied Always Did Regretted Who

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

Wonderful Field Enough About Studies Highly Well Sort Another Making Making Movies Motivated Oddly Wonderful Thing Graduate Movies Thing

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. Sydney Pollack

You About Another Normally Eve Presentation

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. Sydney Pollack

Work Art You Know Exists Essentially Movie Happens Play

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. Sydney Pollack

Work Art You Culture Sometimes Accident Beginning Few Whatever Bits Rarely Particular Call Because Becomes Very Just Movie Movies Them Creating Popular Works Popular Culture

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

Art Photography Architecture Writing Dance Painting Every Way Some Almost Art Form Form Mean Aspect Useful Certainly Film

You are not an active creator of the film. Sydney Pollack

You Active Creator Film

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

You About Idea Make Movies Film

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

Failure You Sometimes Make Very Reasons Film

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. Sydney Pollack

Politics You Political Heroes Focus Think Our Way Bites Focus Groups Tell Some Mortal True Greater Sound Sound Bites Led Than Mean Them Creating Groups Illusions Satisfy Need

I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. Sydney Pollack

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