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

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 somet….

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want….

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. ….

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..

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something..

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with ….

I'm guided by my enthusiasm..

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cuttin….

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing..

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things….

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

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio o….

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..

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

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 m….

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's….

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong ….

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….

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a….

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters..