When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

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?

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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

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

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