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

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 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 ….

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

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 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. ….

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen..

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

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud….

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 origi….

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

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….

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

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….

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..

I'm guided by my enthusiasm..

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing..

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 ….

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….

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