213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it.

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.

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.

I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something.

I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.

The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.

I love having made a movie.

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.