Sydney Pollack

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

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

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.