When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
Carmen is not a sweet, nice girl. This is a piece about a criminal. We want to do a tough, hard version, but Hollywood thinks the audience for Jennifer Lopez is 13-year-old girls. ... It has an ending that Hollywood does not like to make.
When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting paid millions of dollars, they act like spoiled children. They don't really want to work. And the crew knows that. They don't respect them, ... Jamie Foxx is the antithesis of that.
If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going to play the main role, ... In this film I'm in big trouble because everyone knows what Ray Charles looks like. Everyone knows his movements, everyone knows his vocal patterns.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
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.
I heard his story and I thought, 'My God, this is a great subject for a film,'
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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.
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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