Sydney Pollack Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

  Sydney Pollack

  Children, Numbers, Age

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Movie, Art, Gambling

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Growing Up, Thinking

• 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

  Photography, Art, Writing

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Japan, Europe, Yugoslavia

• The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

  Sydney Pollack

  Delicate Things, People, Working Together

• You are not an active creator of the film.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Active, Creator

• Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

  Sydney Pollack

  People, Film, Imagine

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

  Sydney Pollack

  Teacher, Jobs, Views

• Once I start to do a film, it has inferences. If a guy walks down a street and kicks a dog, you're saying something about that guy. A guy walks down the street and somebody's about to be run over and he shoves him out of his way and gets hit by the car himself, you're saying that guy's a hero. You can't avoid making certain statements.

  Sydney Pollack

  Running, Dog, Hero

• I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

  Sydney Pollack

  Fun, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, People, Frustrated

• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

• I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

  Sydney Pollack

  Vocabulary, Light, Lenses

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

  Sydney Pollack

  Eye, World, Film

• Film is a collective experience, as you know.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Collectives, Knows

• [Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.

  Sydney Pollack

  Years, Long, Guy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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

  Art, Real, Mean

• I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

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  Order, People, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Practice

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, Years, People

• All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

  Sydney Pollack

  Stars, War, Mean

• I'm not trying to push my political agenda on anybody. I'll do that like any other citizen by giving money to a party or candidate I believe in. I don't mind going out and endorsing somebody I believe in. But when we're talking about my films, I don't think my politics should have anything to do with it.

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  Party, Believe, Thinking

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Sometimes, Film, Reason

  "R.I.P. Sydney Pollack", www.indiewire.com. May 27, 2008.

• Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Light, Waiting Rooms

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