Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

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.

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.

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.

I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.