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

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

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

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

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

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.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.