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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.
Taylor Hackford
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Taylor Hackford
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 31
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Taylor Edwin Hackford
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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 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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An actor has to embody a role.
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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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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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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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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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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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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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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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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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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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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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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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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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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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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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