213 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

From my point of view I work just as hard, I care just as much, if the films fail it doesn't make me suddenly disown them, it just doesn't.

I'm hands-on in areas where I can make a difference. There's no sense in me standing on set; the director doesn't need me there.

I'm making a plea for my colleagues and myself, who spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to tell you the story in the best possible way visually. And then someone else has to come in and cut the edges off of all that and pan and scan it. So you're not seeing what story we tried to tell you.

The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie.

[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.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

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.

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.