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

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

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 also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

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

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