Sydney Pollack Quotes

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.

I believe that the traditions of our country should be upheld and I'm a real advocate of business.

There's always a conversation about business when it comes to the entertainment industry.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

The powers that be in entertainment are really threatening anybody that shows up at the [Donald] Trump inauguration is gonna have trouble getting a job. They're ticked off.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.