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An actor has to embody a role.

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.

Taylor Hackford

Film

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

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People

Priorities

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.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

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Performance

Actor

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

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Talent

Attitude

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

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Music

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.

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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.

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.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

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Performance

Devil

I make films about working class people.

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People

Class

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.