Taylor Hackford
Taylor Hackford
Taylor Edwin Hackfordis an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Teenage Father. Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably An Officer and a Gentlemanand Ray, the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 December 1944
CitySanta Barbara, CA
CountryUnited States of America
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
An actor has to embody a role.
It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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.
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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.
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .