I like to blow up stereotypes, like taking the icons of metal, the epitome of male testosterone and showing them as regular people.

I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

What you hope, what you're trusting the filmmaker to do, is to capture the emotional truth of the situation.

I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.

One of the great ironies of my career is that people imagine me as some sort of hardcore metal guy because of the Metallica film.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.