Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.
Sydney PollackYou can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.
Sydney PollackWe talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney PollackI didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Sydney PollackYou don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney PollackMost human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney Pollack