I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen..

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance..

It's much easier to work with an unknown..

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 inte….

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talent….

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

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

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films..

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underesti….

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 anyb….

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look..

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

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 in….

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 satis….

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 i….

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say..

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

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

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

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