64 Quotes by Taylor Hackford

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

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.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

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.

But Bruckheimer didn't wilt. He said just do it without them. The great thing for me is that Jerry Bruckheimer and his team gave me all the help I needed and then they left me alone.

I'm always interested in the working class people. I am one. They're subjugated, they're paid very little and they can make it in show biz.