I Have Made All My Films For

I Enjoy Total Creative Control Right Now. Nobody Tells Me To Make It Longer, Shorter, Better, Sexier, More Violent, Whatever.

In A Sense I've Made The Same Film Over And Over Again. In All Of Them I've Asked, 'who Are We As Americans?

You Can Learn As Much About The History From Reading About The Present As You Can Vice Versa, That Is Learning About The Present Through History, Which Is What I Do For A Living.

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.

I Have Made A Film About Jazz That Tries To Look Through Jazz To See What It Tells Us About Who We Are As A People. I Think That Jazz Is A Spectacularly Accurate Model Of Democracy And A Kind Of Look Into Our Redemptive Future Possibilities.