Author: Sydney Pollack

Quotes

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

- Sydney Pollack

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

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

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

- Sydney Pollack

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

- Sydney Pollack

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

- Sydney Pollack

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

- Sydney Pollack

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.

- Sydney Pollack

Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

- Sydney Pollack

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

- Sydney Pollack

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