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

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.

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 something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

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 something great.

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

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 cutting.

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 it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

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 moment.

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

If you allow yourself to be bogged down and lose your enthusiasm, you are dead in the water. But if you remain optimistic, cheerful and committed to your goal, there’s nothing that can stop you.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

I wasn't going to be average.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.