Sydney Pollack Quotes

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Cinema is an art form.

I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

I love film. I love going to see films; I always have. I've done quite a few.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

I don't like any sort of film. I hate films.

I grew up with a deep regard for cinema.

I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.