Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

[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.

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All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It’s just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

Mean

Stars

War

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

Becoming

Directors

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

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Japan

Yugoslavia

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.

Hero

Mean

Thinking

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Editing

Form

Writing

Every film I’ve made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I’ve ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Frustrated

People

Views

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

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Movie

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

[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.

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It’s just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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

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.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every film I’ve made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I’ve ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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