Taylor Hackford

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible…

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace.…

— Taylor Hackford

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and…

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just…

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men…

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

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

— Taylor Hackford

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast…

— Taylor Hackford

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego…

— Taylor Hackford