Every film deserves its own unique look.

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.

When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.

The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.