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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Taylor Hackford
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Taylor Hackford
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 31
Film Director
Film Producer
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Trade Unionist
Santa Barbara
California
Taylor Edwin Hackford
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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.
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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.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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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.
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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.' .
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