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 didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Especially after the Twin Towers, we're so terrified of 'Arabic' people. And talk about stereotypical negative portrayals of people of certain groups, if you look at the portrayal of Arabic people in Hollywood films, it's just appalling. They've always been just the easiest of targets - along with native Africans and what have you.

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