213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

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

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 are not an active creator of the film.

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.

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.

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.