Sydney Pollack People Quotations

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

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.

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

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.

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.

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

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.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

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

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

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

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.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.