Sydney Pollack Quotes

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.