It's much easier to work with an unknown.

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

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

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.

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.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

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