Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.
Sydney PollackThere's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.
Sydney PollackI didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Sydney PollackI mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.
Sydney Pollack