Sydney Pollack : (8)

" Even if it’s a thriller or a comedy, it’s always a love story for me, and that’s what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. " - Sydney Pollack

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. " - Sydney Pollack

" With a movie you’re creating from the beginning this particular work, let’s not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let’s just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. " - Sydney Pollack

" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. " - Sydney Pollack

" For reasons which I can’t logically explain, in all of the films I’ve done, I’ve ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. " - Sydney Pollack

" There isn’t a studio in the world that wouldn’t burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. " - Sydney Pollack

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically – we can live longer, we can… but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. " - Sydney Pollack

" All the movies I’ve made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I’m interested in. " - Sydney Pollack