Scorsese: Uh, well, no. That's an interesting question. I don't think I can make any direct associations to it--but the music is something that deals with that at times. It reminds me of when I went to see Three Penny Opera back in 1959-1960 and how the music affected me, and what that was saying, and what that play said. And, the lyrics were so important to me, in that particular play. I found I grew up in an area that was in a sense like the Three Penny Opera. I think at times the Rolling Stones' music had a similar effect on me. It dealt with aspects of the life I was growing up around, that I was associated with or saw or was experiencing and trying to make sense of. It was tougher, had an edge--beautiful and honest and brutal at times, and powerful--and it's always stayed with me and become a well of inspiration to this day. As Mick said in Berlin (at the film’s world premiere), he said--(speaking to Mick) can I take the line from you? He said, "I want you to know that Shine a Light is the only (Scorsese) film that "Gimme Shelter" isn’t played in." (laughter) When I use "Gimme Shelter" in a film--which I think is apropos of the world we're living in today, "Gimme Shelter"--when I use it in a film, I don't remember that I used it before. I say, "Well, let's do that" and they say "Well, Marty you did it before" and I go, "Well, that’s all right." I forget I’ve used it, you know, but it's something that--the music has been very important to me over these years.
Question: Which song gave you the most pleasure or was the most important and emotional to you, either when you saw the final film or when you were cutting it?
Scorsese: That's a hard one, because the entire concert was composed (by the Stones) as one piece of music in a way…
Question: Was that really at the last minute…
Scorsese: Well, we fudged that a bit. (laughs) I mean, it felt like that. It really is impossible to answer, sorry.
Question: For Keith and Mick, which are your favorite films directed by Martin Scorsese?
Jagger: Which one do you like, Keith?
Richards: Me?
Jagger: Marty's favorite….
Richards: Marty's favorite?
Jagger: Kundun is one of my favorites.
(Scorsese laughs)
Jagger: That's not a joke. (laughter) You did do that one?
Scorsese: I did do it, yes (laughter)
Jagger: I love all of them. It's hard to choose a favorite. I love nearly all of Marty's movies and I can't wait for the next one.
Question: Mr. Scorsese, you used "Gimme Shelter" in The Departed and in other films, but you also used "Let It Loose," which is a little bit more obscure song from Exile on Main Street. What made you pick that? And, for your future films will you pick more obscure songs?
Scorsese: Well, for me, I think it's from Exile isn't it? Exile on Main Street is an album I like a lot, and that is sort of in my DNA, so to speak. It just came--the way Jack Nicholson sat down next to Leonardo DiCaprio and said, "Do you know who I am?" The tone of that and the mood I found… I heard that sound from that song, and I played it against it. I tried a couple of other things afterwards, because invariably, you say "That's the first one. It works, but it can't be (that easy)--working on the first try can't be that way." So we tried other songs, but we went back to "Let It Loose" and placed it at just the right moment between dialogue for the highlights of the song, but it had the tone and the mood and--again--the edge that the scene had and the characters were really like.
Question: Going back to the set list, a lot of people have called this movie a meditation on aging. I was just wondering why you chose a lot of bluesy numbers and a lot of slower songs, but then amp it up at the end. I just wonder why you guys chose the set list like that.
Jagger: I don't know now. It was 18 months ago. I mean.…
Richards: Mick always comes up with the set list because he's got to sing them. Unless I say suddenly, "Mick, you've got ten songs in the same key," I don't interfere. We make the list up because the man's got to sing them.
Jagger: Yeah, I think you pick the one you think is best for the night really. I wasn't thinking, "God, this is a…."
Richards: There might be a sore throat (and that would be the end of it).
Question: Do you have plans to do another acoustic album like Beggar's Banquet in the future?
Jagger: It wasn't really an acoustic album. It did have acoustic guitar. We don't, actually, have plans. We do have some acoustic songs in the featurette on the DVD.
Richards: When you can't afford the electricity, baby, you gotta go acoustic. (laughter)
Question: I loved the version of the Motown classic "Just My Imagination." Are you guys planning to ever do a tribute album to Motown?
Jagger: I used to do tributes to Martha and the Vandellas in front of my mirror. (laughter)
Richards: It must have been twenty years ago.
Question: Mick, in the film you say you’ll still be doing this when you’re sixty. So, do you think you'll still perform when you're 70?
Jagger:Yeah.
Richards: That's only five years away. (laughter).
