Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

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

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

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.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

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