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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

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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.

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I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

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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.

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

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I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

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

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I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

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As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

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I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 22nd, 1944

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