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.

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

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.

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.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.