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.

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.

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.

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.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.