I Make Films About Working Class People.

It's Very Clearly Stated In The Film: You Make Your Own Choices, And What You're Always Fighting Is Ego.

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.

But The Process Of Making A Film Is Not Glamorous. Certainly Not My Films.

Ray Charles, In His Own Way, It's Like At The Beginning, Ray Charles Changed American Music, Not Once But Twice.

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.