I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.
I make films about working class people.
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.