I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

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

I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

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

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

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