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

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

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 like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

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.

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've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.