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?

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

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 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.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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 remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.