Sydney Pollack Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

• 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.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Numbers, People

• 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.

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  Art, Creating, Culture

• 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.

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  Girl, Art, Children

• 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.

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  Art, Real, Mean

• You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

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  Art, Play, Happens

• I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

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  Art, Very Good, Know How

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• 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

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