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

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.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.

Hillary Clinton's weakest group, though, is people under 30, the young.