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 love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

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.

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!

Every film deserves its own unique look.

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.

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