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Question: For everyone in the band, we're all impressed with how this movie reminds us of the boundless energy it takes to be on tour. Starting with Mr. Jagger, I'd like to know what vitamins you take and what's your workout like to do this.
Jagger: God! (laughter) You can forget about that. No gym, no vitamins. Just do it. Just get out there and, yeah, you get very pressurized in these situations.

The thing I always find is with a movie shoot that you really have to come up to the plate and, fortunately, we had two nights. As Keith was saying, it's good to play there more than one night. And, I agree with him, because the first night we played was more like a rehearsal for us in a way, and by the time the second night came 'round, we got more adjusted to playing in a small theater--because although we played lots of small theaters in the past, we hadn't done it on this tour. So, this was quite different to suddenly go into this small theater. By the second night, we knew how to sort of do it. This was going to be the night with all these people there and everything, but I felt really good about that particular night, so you just have to almost come and do it.

Richards: It was a turn on.

Jagger: Yeah. (laughs)

Question: How much are you guys still having fun, and were there moments of that fun that you tried to capture?

Jagger: It took us two days to shoot the picture, but we've spent four days doing the premieres and promotions.

It's taken us twice as long doing that. Shooting this movie was quite nerve-wracking in some ways for us, and in other ways it was fantastically enjoyable. I'm sure that Marty had a lot of things going on--he's got to cover it when it happens. It was quite a challenge. Talking about having fun, it was great fun--but it was great challenge for everyone sitting at this platform both on the night and after it. Career-wise, you always see things as great fun, but they're also challenges to do these things that are slightly different from what you do normally.

Scorsese: For me it was literally the moments when you can see the band working together. All the songs, it's like a narrative, a story, and the whole sound of the band is like a character, one character in each song. With the grace of these wonderful cinematographers, headed by Bob Richardson, and people like Bob Elswit and Ellen Kuras and John Toll and (Andrew) Lesnie, who did Lord of the Rings, Andrew Rowlands--they were able to, like poets at times, know exactly when to move that camera to pick up a member of the band. We shot this on 35mm--not video--so we only had 10-minute loads, and cameras were going down all the time--running out of film--so another camera would pick up where someone left off. That's why there were so many cameras, to be able to pick up the slack. But the key was to find moments between members of the band that show how they work together. It's like a machine, it’s its own entity during each song.

Question: Who chose the archival clips you used?

Scorsese: Who chose the clips? Dave Tedeschi's the editor of the film, and we worked together almost nine to ten months on it. The music came together rather quickly in the cutting. That was very enjoyable. The hardest part was putting together the clips. I think Dave looked at over 400 hours of archival footage, and then he chose about 40 hours for me to see, and then we worked from that 40 hours and it was a matter of balancing--saying something but not saying too much, and then saying nothing with it. That was the key. And balancing it so it wouldn't unbalance the music in the piece. To do a film with all that archival footage I think would be a four or five hour documentary.

Jagger: There were some moments when I thought the archival footage was going on too long, and I felt we were going off into another movie that was not the concert. Because it was really kind of riveting sometimes, those old movies--but then if it goes on too long, you want to come back to the concert stage. Sometimes David left them a little bit on the long side, so in the end we ended up with what we had, which was good.