Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

It is better to be the weird one than the one people say negative things about.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.