The 36+ Taylor Hackford Quotes

The Most Disgusting, Appalling Horror Of Our World That We Live In, To Me, Is Sex Trafficking And The Enslavement Of Men And Women, Boys And Girls, In The Sex Industry. That Is The Most Horrific, Horrific Thing That's Happening And It's Happening In All Of Our Towns Here In Los Angeles, In New York, In London, In Paris, All Over The World, And I Think That's Really What Has To Be Addressed.

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.

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.' .

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 Make Films About Working Class People.

You'd Be Surprised How Many Movie Stars Still Care About The Work.

It's Much Easier To Work With An Unknown.

If People Are Worried About The Size Of Their Trailers, I Kind Of Say Their Priorities Are Off.

I Try To Get The Best Performance An Actor Can Give.

When I Finish A Film, I Put It Away And I Never Look At It Again.

Well I Don't Think I've Scored My Life Exclusively To Ray Charles.

We All Get Paid Very, Very Well, And We Have Responsibilities.