An Actor Has To Embody A Role.

The Whole Concept Of The Devil Is A Metaphor On One Level.

I Make Films About Working Class People. All My Films Have Always Been About That. For Example, The Brothel Is A Workplace. It's Aberrant, But A Workplace Nonetheless. I Was More Interested As Opposed To Glamorizing And Saying, Oh, This Is A Great Erotic Place, It's A Place Of Business. The Commodity Is Sex.

Show Business Is One Of Those Things That People Can Use To Get Themselves Out Of The Lower Rung Of Society.

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 Stone, And I Thought, 'oh My God, If He Doesn't Like It I'm Dead.' ... And Then Finally, After 25 Minutes He Started To Talk Back To The Screen. I Heard Him Say 'that's Right. That's The Truth.' .

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.