There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

If you listen to Sam Phillips and [Big Star producer] Jim Dickinson, their use of language is so beautiful,

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fascinating ? it was a mirror-image kind of experience.

it's about what you hide and what you show.