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.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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

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.

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.

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 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.