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Taylor Hackford
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 31
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Trade Unionist
Santa Barbara
California
Taylor Edwin Hackford
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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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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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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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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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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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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I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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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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I make films about working class people.
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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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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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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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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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An actor has to embody a role.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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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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