Sydney Pollack quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

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

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

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

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 hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

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

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

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film.