I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

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

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 like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.

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.