Sydney Pollack Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.”

“Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.”

“Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.”

“You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.”

“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.”

“I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.”

“Film is a collective experience, as you know.”