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.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

An actor has to embody a role.