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

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

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

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!

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