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

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.

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.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

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

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.