Top 30 Quotes by Sydney Pollack

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

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.

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

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.

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

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

You are not an active creator of the film.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.