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There Are No Ordinary Lives.

We Strain To Listen To The Ghosts And Echoes Of Our Inexpressibly Wise Past, And We Have An Obligation To Maintain These Places, To Provide These Sanctuaries, So That People May Be In The Presence Of Forces Larger Than Those Of The Moment.

I Have Made All My Films For My Children With The Exception Of My First Film Because My Oldest Daughter Wasn't Born When I Was Making The Film About The Brooklyn Bridge.

When You Are Editing, The Final Master Is Aristotle And His Poetics. You Might Have A Terrific Episode, But If People Are Falling Out Because There Are Just Too Many Elements In It, You Have To Begin To Get Rid Of Things.

History Isn't Really About The Past - Settling Old Scores. It's About Defining The Present And Who We Are.