Sydney Pollack
film producer, actor, television actor, film actor, television director, film director, aircraft pilot, character actor, director, producer
Read on Wikipedia1934 – 2008
All Quotes by 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 into film in some way.”
“What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.”
“If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.”
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”
“Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.”
“Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.”
“Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.”
“When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.”