(sydney pollack) noit gets interesting again. why? i'm afraid when i'm working that i don't have enough story. this is something i always complain about. to myself, to the writers i'm working with. who's going to pay attention to these people if we don't have some sort of a story to lean on? in the times where the films have been successful, and they aren't always, but when they are successful it's because in some way character substitutes story. (sydney pollack) the nerve that got punched in "the way we were" was that these two characters were obvious prototypes here. the wasp american and the ethnic immigrant. the one that has everything and the one that has nothing. the one to whom everything comes easily, the one to whom everything seems difficult. everybody seems to identify with one of these characters. usually both. once you get them captured, once they are playing that game with the people on the screen, this is like you've got them by the throat. you squeeze a little more and more and more. don't let them escape. don't let th