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

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

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

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

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

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.' .

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