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

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.

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

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.