A Jazz Beat Is A Dynamic Changing

There Is No Communication In This World Except Between Equals.

Jazz Is A Very Accurate, Curiously Accurate Accompaniment To 20th Century America.

Good History Is A Question Of Survival. Without Any Past, We Will Deprive Ourselves Of The Defining Impression Of Our Being.

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.

When A Documentary Filmmaker, Working In The Style That I Do, Suggests That There Has Been A Shooting Ratio Of 40 Hours To Every One Hour Of Finished Film, That Doesn't Mean That The Other 39 Are Bad.