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.

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.

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

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

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.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.