You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work..

An actor has to embody a role..

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long ti….

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..

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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