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.

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

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

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

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.