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

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

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.

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