One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
Sydney PollackIt's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.
Sydney PollackI make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.
Sydney PollackEvery 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 Pollack