When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
– Sydney Pollack
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
– Sydney Pollack
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
– Sydney Pollack
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
– Sydney Pollack
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.