Sydney Pollack Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.”

“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”

“Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.”

“You are not an active creator of the film.”

“But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.”

“I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.”

“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, 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.”

“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.”

“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.”