The 69+ Sydney Pollack Quotes

We Talked About Tootsie, The Idea In Tootsie Is That A Man Becomes A Better Man For Having Been A Woman.

You Don't Normally Do Another Presentation Of All About Eve. You Do One All About Eve, And That's It.

When You Make A Film You Usually Make A Film About An Idea.

Well, The Wonderful Thing About Making Movies, Oddly Enough, Is That They're Sort Of Highly Motivated Graduate Studies In One Or Another Field.

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.

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.

You Are Not An Active Creator Of The Film.

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.

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.

If We Were A Primitive Society, Movie Stars Would Be Gods.

And I Taught Acting For Years, And Without Knowing It That Was The Real Thing That Started Bending Me Toward Directing.

What I Really Want To Do Is Produce. There Isn’t Much Patience With A Slow Developing Story Line Anymore.