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.

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.

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.

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

Words, like flowers, have their colors too.

Every girl has a right to be loved.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

I shall never surrender or retreat.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.