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.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

An actor has to embody a role.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.