Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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.
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
I make films about working class people.
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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.
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.
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
An actor has to embody a role.
