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

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

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

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.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.