213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

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

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

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.

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

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.