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 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.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.