I Try To Get The Best Performance

Russell Crowe Is Very Difficult, But It's Worth It. He's The Real Thing. I Can Tell You This. Russell Crowe Was Just As Difficult Before He Was An International Star As He Was Afterwards.

Music Has Always Been An Important Thing To Me In My Life And Understand I've Worked In The Music Business.

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 Got To Take Control; I Can't Act It Out.

An Actor Has To Embody A Role.

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.' .