The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Sydney Pollack

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack

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

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

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Sydney Pollack

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

You are not an active creator of the film.
Sydney Pollack

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

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