I Try To Get The Best Performance

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

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.

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.' .

I Love Actors And I Understand What Has To Happen Within A Scene. Any Scene Is An Acting Scene And Actors Never Act Alone, So There Has To Be An Interchange. If It's A Dialog Scene, If It's A Love Scene, It Doesn't Matter Because You Need To Establish A Situation.

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.