If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

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.

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.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky.