Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.