Taylor Hackford

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

I love Hindi films.