In A Sense I've Made The Same

I Think The Problem With A Lot Of The Fusion Music Is That Its Extremely Predictable, Its A Rock Rhythm And The Solos All Play The Same Stuff And They Play It Over And Over Again And Theres A Certain Musical Virtuosity Involved In It.

I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music The Way I Research The Photographs Or The Facts In My Scripts.

There Is No Communication In This World Except Between Equals.

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.

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.