Charlie Watts and Ron Wood and whether they want to comment on both the concert and film shoot being a special night:

CHARLIE WATTS: No. [laughs]

RON WOOD: I knew he'd say that.

Mick Jagger and Ron Wood on how the Imax version will be different for fans:

JAGGER: It will be very larger [laughs].

WOOD: The slight imperfections might be revealed. [laughs].

JAGGER: The funny thing really is that Marty, after looking at all the options, decided that he wanted to make this small, intimate movie and I said, "Well, the laugh is Marty that in the end it's going to be blown up to this huge IMAX thing, so the intimate moment is shown in IMAX," but it looks good in IMAX. We've got both formats, so we're happy with that.

Richards, Scorsese, and Jagger on who chose the docu clips and whether they'll still perform when they're 70:

RICHARDS: That's only five years away. [laughs]

SCORSESE: Who chose the clips? Dave Tedeschi's the editor of the film, and we worked together almost nine to ten months. The music came together rather quickly in the cutting. That was very enjoyable. The hardest part was putting together the clips. I think Dave had over 400 hours of archival footage, and then he chose about forty hours for me to see, and then we worked from that forty 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 of all 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 too long and I felt we were going off into another movie and not at a 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.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on whether they'll do another acoustic album like Beggar's Banquet:

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. [laughs]

Jagger and Richards on whether they'll ever do a Motown tribute album:

JAGGER: I used to do tributes to Martha and the Vandellas in front of my mirror. [laughs]

RICHARDS: It must have been twenty years ago.

Scorsese and Richards on the presence of Al Maysles and how they were affected by earlier Stones films like Gimmer Shelter:

SCORSESE: Al sort of referenced the line of continuity with a number of wonderful films he made with the Rolling Stones, going back of course to "Gimme Shelter" and Hal Ashby's "Let's Spend the Night Together" and the Godard.

RICHARDS: Don't forget "C*cksucker Blues." [laugh and smiles].

SCORSESE: And "C*cksucker Blues." But also, the Godard film where you actually see the song "Sympathy for the Devil" come together in the recording studio, which is fascinating. This is a direct reference to the past films, yeah.

-- Jordan Riefe

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