Sydney Pollack Quotes & Sayings

“We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.”

“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.”

“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.”

“When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.”

“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”

“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.”

“And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.”