Taylor Hackford People Quotations

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

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.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

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.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

Our society gives power to people who are successful. All of a sudden, if you've created something unique and interesting, you're set apart.

It's all about the same thing, being able to pull people into a situation where you have a vision, and transport that vision off the page.

I make films about working class people.

I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.