Taylor Hackford

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

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

An actor has to embody a role.

I love Hindi films.

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.

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.