This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

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.

I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.

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.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.