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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
— Sydney Pollack
You are not an active creator of the film.
— Sydney Pollack
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
— Sydney Pollack
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
— Sydney Pollack
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
— Sydney Pollack
I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
— Sydney Pollack
Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.
— Sydney Pollack
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
— Sydney Pollack
The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.
— Sydney Pollack
I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
— Sydney Pollack
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
— Sydney Pollack
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
— Sydney Pollack
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
— Sydney Pollack
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
— Sydney Pollack
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
— Sydney Pollack
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
If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
— Sydney Pollack
Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.
— Sydney Pollack
I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
— Sydney Pollack
It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
— Sydney Pollack
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
— Sydney Pollack
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
— Sydney Pollack
The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing ... it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.
— Sydney Pollack
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
— Sydney Pollack
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
— 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
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 with them.
— Sydney Pollack
What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
— Sydney Pollack
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
— Sydney Pollack