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.

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.

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 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 a really amazing thing to be able to do.

We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.

No matter what life has dealt you, your yesterday does not need to define your today.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

I don't have to promise myself anything. That's all part of the wonderfulness that is me.

I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.