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

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.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

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

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

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.