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

• You are not an active creator of the film.

  Sydney Pollack

  Film, Active, Creator

• 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

• 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.

  Sydney Pollack

  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.

  Sydney Pollack

  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

• My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, Political, Trying

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

  Sydney Pollack

  Movie, Ideas, Actors

• 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.

  Sydney Pollack

  People, Trying, Kind

• Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.

  Sydney Pollack

  Dvds, Laughing, Interesting

• 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

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