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.

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 think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

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

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?