I Believed In Myself And I Am

If You Want The Film [la La Land ] To Represent All Things Jazz, It Does Not. You'll Be Disappointed By That. But, If You Just See It As One Guy's Point Of View, One Filmmaker's Point Of View, And One Story Among Many Stories That Can Be Told About Jazz, Then It's Not As Much Of An Issue.

We Want To Do Things That Are Interesting, Great Storytelling, Some Of It Is Gonna Be More Fun And Funny, Some Of It Is More Serious And Talking About Interesting Issues That We Think Are Provocative And Interesting To Us. Kind Of On A More Political Level. But, You Know, Just Things That We Find Interesting That We Think Stories That Need To Be Told.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

Some People, You Know, Should Just Go To College And Do What They Do And Have A Great Job And Not Worry About Trying To Be Famous As A Singer. It's Not For Everyone.

It's An Artist's Duty To Reflect The Times In Which We Live.