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

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

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

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

An actor has to embody a role.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

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.