I Make Films About Working Class People.

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.' .

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.

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.

I Try To Get The Best Performance An Actor Can Give.

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.