Sydney Pollack Dead at 73

From the Bloomberg obit:

The connection between man and woman is "a metaphor for everything else in life," he told Newsweek in 1985. In a 1990 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he said he was drawn to "love stories in which the obstacle is too great to finally be overcome."

Here's an interview with Pollack about one of his best films, "Jeremiah Johnson."