I Think We Too Often Make Choices

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

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.

The Stories From 1975 On Are Not Finished And There Is No Resolve. I Could Spend 50 Hours On The Last 25 Years Of Jazz And Still Not Do It Justice.

You Know, You Meet Some People, And Do A Lot Of Interviews, And You Come Across A Buck O'neill And You Know You Are Going To Know Him For The Rest Of Your Life. The Same Thing Happened With.

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.