The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

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

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

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, 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.