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Sydney Pollack Quotes

Sydney Pollack quotes

American Director July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008

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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. 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
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
Sydney Pollack quote: "Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different,..."
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. 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. 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. 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. Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack quote: "I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as..."
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack quote: "Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely..."
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. 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
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
Sydney Pollack quote: "Every single art form is involved in film, in a way."
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack quote: "I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or..."
I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack quote: "I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show..."
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. 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. Sydney Pollack

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