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.

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.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

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

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

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

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.