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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
Film,
"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."
"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."
Film,
"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
Explore more quotes by Taylor Hackford
"This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."
"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."
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