It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

I make films about working class people.

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.

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

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

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