The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.