It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

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.

When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!

Why are you walking through the wood alone?

Made a decision. I will never let a sunny day happen without me again. Darkness is almost always guaranteed unless some strange thing happens. But the sun...?! Go get some.

Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They both shine when it's their time.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.