The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were te….

Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he li….

I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not even joking, e….

One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that….

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly in….

Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will….

Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that ….

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me..

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing.

Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, [but] those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-dow….

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences..

You can't divorce yourself from your own life experiences..

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives,….

As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't ha….

I've never had access to another person's art and work or, particularly, someone who is as prolific and was able to externalize his interior world as….

When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly b….

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family..