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

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.

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.

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

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

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

I make films about working class people.