Taylor Hackford Quotes

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• 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…
• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
• But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
• I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
• When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a…
• 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…
• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
• An actor has to embody a role.
• 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…
• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
• I make films about working class people.
• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
• I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've…
• If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
• It's much easier to work with an unknown.
• You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
• When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
• Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

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