Director Sydney Pollack talks They Shoot Horses Jeremiah Johnson The Way We Were 1983

[@tonyhoward7004]

Love hearing him talk so modestly about Tootsie…..at that point in the production, he would have no way of knowing he was only directing the greatest film comedy of all time!

[@blane1814]

Such a gem

[@LoyalOpposition]

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is in my Top 5, and it's on KZbin for free :)

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Horses was the classic, the rest of them you can have.

[@kapple654]

Ok sorry for the spamming but I'm just so excited, I think I've found my new fav director.... I saw electric horseman again after twenty years last week and it's brilliant. I can't believe that they wrote it as they went.. so Fonda and Redford never knew if they were going to be together or not "which added to the spontenaity of the thing"... This is a lot like how experimental director Mike Leigh works.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

This film was incredible. It was nominated for a ton of Oscars but not Best Picture??!! WTF

[@kapple654]

Interviewer: "Jane Fonda credits you with getting her out of her sex kitten typecast" Sydney:"yeah Barbarella was just prior to that, and they short horses was the first really significant role that she played. And I really think had the political situation not been what it was, had she not been so unpopular across the country, had she not had the political views she had she would have won the Oscar" Interesting piece of film history there.

[@Glenny-vk4np]

Jeremiah Johnson is moody and melancholy. That is the nature of our existence. That is the contemplative truth that the creators of the movie arrive at. They didn't really know what the movie was about. Who does? The movie shows us a truth. We can see it, feel it and experience it, but like all great truths, we can't name it, we can't really grasp it. It's a great movie. It shows us the potential of film and life. Sydney Pollock was a, thoughtful, insightful man.

[@kapple654]

"what you see with Robert michum is what you get, he's really a wise guy, it's all there in his face, it's really marinated in life" how poetically put!

[@angelareele858]

What do you think of Kubrick (2001)or Schlesinger (midnight cowboy)?

[@kapple654]

@@angelareele858 Kubrick's the best film maker that ever lived in terms of perfectionism/intellectually. and Schlesinger's midnight cowboys is great... moving but tragic... very very tragic. a lot of naive young people from the country come to the big city and behold the same fate.... so its still relevant. sorry I enthusiastically bombarded the comments section... but pollack is actually one of my favourites. especially with women.