I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

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.

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

Never, under any circumstances put a man in a position where he no longer cares.

The divinity dwells in thee. Awaken the divine power.

Mastery does not exist.

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.

I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.