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Top 30 Taylor Hackford Quotes (2025 Update)

Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “An actor has to embody a role.”

3. “An actor has to embody a role.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you’re not so talented.”

5. “But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you’re not so talented.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “It’s very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you’re always fighting is ego.”

6. “It’s very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you’re always fighting is ego.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I’m not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They’ve got to take control; I can’t act it out.”

7. “I’m not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They’ve got to take control; I can’t act it out.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “It’s much easier to work with an unknown.”

8. “It’s much easier to work with an unknown.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.”

9. “I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.”

10. “I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.”

11. “The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.”

12. “Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I’ve worked in the music business.”

13. “Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I’ve worked in the music business.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.”

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

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.”

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

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “You’d be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.”

16. “You’d be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I make films about working class people.”

18. “I make films about working class people.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.”

19. “It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I try to get the best performance an actor can give.”

20. “I try to get the best performance an actor can give.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “The director’s job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.”

22. “The director’s job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It’s an incredible performance.”

23. “Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It’s an incredible performance.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.”

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

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.”

25. “When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Taylor Hackford

Taylor Hackford Quote: “I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.”

27. “I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.”

— Taylor Hackford

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Ray Charles, in his own way, it’s like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.”

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

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.”

29. “We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it’s a dialog scene, if it’s a love scene, it doesn’t matter because you need to establish a situation.”

30. “I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it’s a dialog scene, if it’s a love scene, it doesn’t matter because you need to establish a situation.”

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Taylor Hackford Quote: “Well I don’t think I’ve scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.”

31. “Well I don’t think I’ve scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.”

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