Every film deserves its own unique look.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

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

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.

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

Every film deserves its own unique look.