One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
Sydney PollackMaking a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney PollackWe talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Sydney Pollack