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 int…

- Sydney Pollack

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…

- Sydney Pollack

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

- Sydney Pollack

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

- Sydney Pollack

Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to ge…

- Sydney Pollack

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

- Sydney Pollack

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

- Sydney Pollack

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

- Sydney Pollack