Ronald Meyer

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

We all want to make money.

In my case, the business chose me.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.