I make films about working class people.
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.
The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.
