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

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

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

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

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

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.' .

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