| Sydney Pollack QUOTES / QUOTATIONS |
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
But, I went away to New York, and I went to a very good acting school, by sheer luck, not because I was smart or knew about it.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
But, something about film has to do with the immediacy of what the 20th Century is.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
From my point of view I work just as hard, I care just as much, if the films fail it doesn't make me suddenly disown them, it just doesn't.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
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 the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I would go back and make Havana again if it came to me, I would go back and make Random Hearts, both pictures were failures.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I'm hands-on in areas where I can make a difference. There's no sense in me standing on set; the director doesn't need me there.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
So when I finish that picture I've done a sort of graduate course in that field, in that area, that's highly motivated.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Then I grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and left there right out of high school, I was interested in acting, I thought.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
You are not an active creator of the film.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Quotation of 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.
Quotation of Sydney Pollack
|
|
|
del.icio.us
Digg it
Simpy