Sydney Pollack Quotes

Hollywood is a world all its own.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.

Hollywood is a strange place.

Hollywood is a pretty edgy place.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.