Sydney Pollack

Pollack, Sydney Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Char·ac·ter

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Margaret

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Memorial Tribute
• Play in Full Screen The 81st Annual Academy Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - In Memoriam
• Play in Full Screen Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Amulet of Samarkand

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Recount

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie

  2008, role: actor , character name: George Fields
• Play in Full Screen Leatherheads

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - In Memoriam
• Play in Full Screen Made of Honor

  2008, role: actor , character name: Thomas Sr.
• Play in Full Screen The Reader

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen I Don't Know How She Does It

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Power Networking: How the Biz Does Business

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Michael Clayton

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Michael Clayton

  2007, role: actor , character name: Marty Bach
• Play in Full Screen Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fauteuils d'orchestre

  2006, role: actor , character name: Brian Sobinsky
• Play in Full Screen Catch a Fire

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen 2006 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Breaking and Entering

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Last Mogul

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

  2005, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen One Six Right

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Interpreter

  2005, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Interpreter

  2005, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cineastes en acció

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cineastas contra magnates

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Needs of Kim Stanley

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Interpreter

  2005, role: actor , character name: Jay Pettigrew
• Play in Full Screen Forty Shades of Blue

  2005, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Something About Sydney Pollack

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen E! Entertainment Special: Tom Cruise

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Climbing 'Cold Mountain'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Im freien Fall - Tom Tykwer und das Kino

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen In the Name of Love

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Cold Mountain

  2003, role: producer

Famous quotes by Sydney Pollack:

"On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience."

"I'm making a plea for my colleagues and myself, who spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to tell you the story in the best possible way visually. And then someone else has to come in and cut the edges off of all that and pan and scan it. So you're not seeing what story we tried to tell you."

"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."

"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

"Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director."

"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."

"I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures."

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."

"You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it."

"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."

"I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people."

"With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art."

"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."

"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."

"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."

"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."

"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea."

"Every single art form is involved in film, in a way."