64 Quotes by Taylor Hackford

An actor has to embody a role.

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.

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.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I’ve worked in the music business.

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.

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.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

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.