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.

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

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.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

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.

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

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