"On Story" How Sydney Pollack Learned from His Characters’ Lives and Arguments in ‘On Story’ - NoFilmSchool | CINE DIGITAL  ...TIPS, TECNOLOGIA & EQUIPO, CINEMA, CAMERAS | Scoop.it

The legendary late Sydney Pollack identifies the moments in the development of his classic films Tootsie, The Way We Were, and Jeremiah Johnson, when he discovered the keys to making his characters work in the context of the stories he was trying to tell, and how those discoveries were translated into the scripts and the final films. In this same episode, David Milch, creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, also describes how he created the character of Andy Sipowicz and how he channeled his frustration of not being able to tell the biblical tale of Paul into a storyline for Deadwood. You can check out the full episode here: