Sydney Pollack Personal Quotes:
[on his favorite area of the filmmaking process] Editing, because I'm alone and there isn't the necessity of having to organize so many people. Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
I don't value a film I've enjoyed making. If it's good, it's damned hard work.
[on working with
Al Pacino on
Bobby Deerfield (1977)] He's always asking questions. He's very hard on a director. In a nightclub scene he wanted to know, "Is this the first or second time we've been here?" He wants to know what day of the week it is for a scene. He wants to know the entire background to the relationship with the character played by 'Anny Duperey': "Did I pick her up? Did she pick me up?"
[on
Paul Newman] There's stillness in his acting now that is quite magnetic. You can feel his intelligence, you can see him thinking. He has the depth of a clear pool of water.
[on
Meryl Streep] The danger I'm talking about here is that she tends to sound boring because she's so perfect.
