Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

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.

Love is like a bullet in the flesh. It simply Burns.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

There isn't a formal definition of success.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

The more we allow ourselves to enjoy, the more reasons we find to be joyful.