Taylor Hackford

Hackford, Taylor Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Marlene Dietrich

  2015, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Il Mistero di Dante

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Parker

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Company Town

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Company Town

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Parker

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen CinemAbility

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Casting By

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Merchant of Shanghai

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Love Ranch

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Love Ranch

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ray Charles America

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tenn

  2010, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 82nd Annual Academy Awards

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Merchant of Shanghai

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Cleanflix

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director, Ray
• Play in Full Screen The Woman Next Door

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Woman Next Door

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Brando: An Icon Is Born

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Music of 'An Officer and a Gentleman'

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Play in Full Screen The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen An Officer and a Gentleman: 25 Years Later

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

  2005, role: actor , character name: Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen 36th NAACP Image Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner
• Play in Full Screen Budd Boetticher: An American Original

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
• Play in Full Screen The 77th Annual Academy Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ray

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Genius: A Night for Ray Charles

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Ray

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ray

  2004, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Bukowski: Born into This

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen To Grandma with Love

  2003, role: actor , character name: Director
• Play in Full Screen The Score

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Lionel Richie Collection

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen 100 Greatest Sexy Moments

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Proof of Life

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Proof of Life

  2000, role: director
• Play in Full Screen G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

  1999, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Devil's Advocate

  1997, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Devil's Advocate

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen When We Were Kings

  1996, role: editor

Famous quotes by Taylor Hackford:

"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.'"

"When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting paid millions of dollars, they act like spoiled children. They don't really want to work. And the crew knows that. They don't respect them, ... Jamie Foxx is the antithesis of that."

"I trusted my instincts here, but I'm not stupid. The next thing I did was throw him into the shark tank, ... I threw him in with Ray Charles."

"If you are making a film about a very famous individual you live or die by the person that's going to play the main role, ... In this film I'm in big trouble because everyone knows what Ray Charles looks like. Everyone knows his movements, everyone knows his vocal patterns."

"I had to go to Ray every year and apologize. And he was so wise in his way, he said, 'Taylor, don't worry, it will happen when it's ready to happen,'"

"I heard his story and I thought, 'My God, this is a great subject for a film,'"

"I think it speaks to the greatness of the man that he truly gave me the gift of allowing me to tell the story warts and all, ... To be able to see the good, the bad, the light, the dark. And Ray Charles had a substantial dark side."

"The story of Ray Charles is the world underestimating him. ... Everyone ultimately kept saying [to him] ... you really shouldn't be able to do anything because you're a cripple,"

"Supernatural."

"Staying Alive."

"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."

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

"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."

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."

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

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

"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."

"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."

"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented."

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