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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.
Taylor Hackford
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Taylor Hackford
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 31
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Santa Barbara
California
Taylor Edwin Hackford
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As a filmmaker, no is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.
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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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An actor has to embody a role.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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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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I make films about working class people.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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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.
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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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When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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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.
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It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
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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.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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