Words matter. These are the best Taylor Hackford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I’ve worked in the music business.
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.
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
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.
Well I don’t think I’ve scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you’re not so talented.
You’d be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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 time.
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.
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.
It’s very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you’re always fighting is ego.
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
I make films about working class people.
And it’s a question of how far we’re willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
The director’s job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
It’s much easier to work with an unknown.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it’s like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
