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

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.

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

Every film deserves its own unique look.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.