“Jimi's music is so universal. And kids who are getting into rock 'n' roll guitar, who's the go-to guy? It's Jimi. That's the first place you start and everything else comes from that.”
“[Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon.] It think it's very clever, and very, very emotionally charged, ... It has a tremendous wallop, I think.”
“I think 'caretaking' is a very apt description, ... I feel like we've nurtured them along. It must be 10 years ago that the Hendrix family got the rights back and in so doing we have been literally caretaking all the wonderful music that Jimi left us.”
“When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,”
“This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.”
“There was a guy onstage filming the whole bloody thing. Who's this guy? Where did he come from? We tracked him down. He was a student. His parents had given him some money to buy an open reel video recorder, ... It shows some wonderful moments that were not captured by the other cameras.”
