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

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

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.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

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.

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.