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

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

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

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.

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.

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.