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.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

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

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

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

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!

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