Top 100 Quotes About Pollack
#1. Well Sid Pollack was ... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman
#2. I don't rehearse with my actors ... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on ... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed ... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
Ira Sachs
#3. I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
Morton Feldman
#4. I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!'
Julia Ormond
#5. All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, How do you know when you've finished making love?
Ross Wetzsteon
#7. I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice.
Desmond Howard
#8. It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.
Jessica Lange
#9. When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.
Robyn Davidson
#10. Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.
Myra Pollack Sadker
#11. 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
#13. Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.
Sydney Pollack
#14. I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
Sydney Pollack
#15. 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
#16. 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 get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney Pollack
#17. 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
#18. Marion: What is all this? What's going on?
Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.
Rachel Pollack
#19. We need to act for the sake of a redemption that will be a mystery until it unfolds before us.
Rachel Pollack
#20. I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
Sydney Pollack
#21. I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.
Eileen Pollack
#22. Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.
Sydney Pollack
#23. I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Sydney Pollack
#24. I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Sydney Pollack
#25. All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.
Sydney Pollack
#26. We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.
Rachel Pollack
#27. Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics.
Sydney Pollack
#29. What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
Sydney Pollack
#30. When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.
Sydney Pollack
#31. I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.
Sydney Pollack
#32. Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
Sydney Pollack
#33. My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.
Robert Pollack
#34. It's not actually that hard to be an expert on Iran. You only need to know two phrases: "I don't know" and "it depends.
Kenneth Pollack
#35. don't live to regret the things you never said
Nick Pollack
#36. One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
Sydney Pollack
#37. One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).
Kenneth Pollack
#38. Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack
#39. 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
#40. [Stanley] Kubrick was a fascinating, larger than life guy who had been a friend for many years prior to our working together on that film. I found the best part of working with him to be the long conversations we had between set-ups.
Sydney Pollack
#41. 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
#42. I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.
Sydney Pollack
#43. I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.
Sydney Pollack
#44. I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.
Sydney Pollack
#45. People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.
Sydney Pollack
#46. I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.
Sydney Pollack
#47. You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box.
Eileen Pollack
#48. I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.
Sydney Pollack
#49. You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.
Sydney Pollack
#51. 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
#52. You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney Pollack
#53. But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Sydney Pollack
#54. I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
Sydney Pollack
#55. I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
Sydney Pollack
#57. 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
#58. You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
Sydney Pollack
#59. What to do with daughters has always been something of a problem, unless they are so pretty or so passive or so wealthy that they are snatched up as brides as soon as the come of marriageable age.
- THE COLLECTORS: DR. CLARIBEL AND MISS ETTA CONE
Barbara Pollack
#61. To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.
Rachel Pollack
#62. God, in these pages, becomes a way to express our universal desire to know and to comprehend the sacred.
Rachel Pollack
#63. Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
Neal Pollack
#64. The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
Robert Pollack
#65. I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
#66. You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.
Eileen Pollack
#67. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.
Sydney Pollack
#68. Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Sydney Pollack
#69. 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 do have many lives through the films.
Sydney Pollack
#70. When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
#72. Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack
#73. Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.
Susan Pollack
#74. I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.
Sydney Pollack
#75. We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack
#76. For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Sydney Pollack
#77. If you're making love to a man of God, then God must endorse your lovemaking.
Eileen Pollack
#78. You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
Sydney Pollack
#79. Violence cannot destroy the body of the Goddess, for Her body is the world itself.
Rachel Pollack
#80. It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
Sydney Pollack
#81. Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.
Robert Pollack
#82. But that (My brother's first science fair) project changed my life.
Eileen Pollack
#83. Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson ... bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, I am nature.
Ross Wetzsteon
#84. When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
Sydney Pollack
#85. I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.
Sydney Pollack
#86. It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.
Tom Pollack
#87. Hollywood was set up by a bunch of businessmen. They do not see their job as being philanthropists. I don't think it's a contradiction in terms to attempt to be a good businessman and to also be liberal.
Sydney Pollack
#88. My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.
Sydney Pollack
#89. Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
Sydney Pollack
#90. OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
Sydney Pollack
#91. The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack
#92. Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.
Sydney Pollack
#93. If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
Sydney Pollack
#94. I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Sydney Pollack
#95. And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
Sydney Pollack
#96. There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.
Sydney Pollack
#97. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.
Gerald H. Pollack
#98. No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
Sydney Pollack
#99. I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
Sydney Pollack
#100. By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
Sydney Pollack
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