I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

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.

Every morning, the sunrise wakes me up with rays of hope.

Never pass up a valuable opportunity, because regret can last a lifetime.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

I'm not saying I'm not a moody guy sometimes, but I think I have a pretty normal balance.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then why does it hurt when I spray them with Windex?