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. Sydney Pollack More Quotes by Sydney Pollack More Quotes From Sydney Pollack My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push. Sydney Pollack political views trying I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing. Sydney Pollack fun laughing years Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted. Sydney Pollack good-feeling done feelings When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. Sydney Pollack movie actors ideas 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. Sydney Pollack president men years OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money. Sydney Pollack disgusting money people By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. Sydney Pollack hero mean thinking Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. Sydney Pollack graduates study fields 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. Sydney Pollack real mean art No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. Sydney Pollack envied college people You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. Sydney Pollack presentation Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. Sydney Pollack responsible becoming directors What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore. Sydney Pollack lines stories want I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. Sydney Pollack mind mean people I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. Sydney Pollack real home night I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. Sydney Pollack mean people years But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. Sydney Pollack yugoslavia japan europe Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. Sydney Pollack wells scripts essentials I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. Sydney Pollack toes mean kids Film is a collective experience, as you know. Sydney Pollack collectives film knows
