There Are No Ordinary Lives.

Nothing In Our Daily Life Offers More Of The Comfort Of Continuity, The Generational Connection Of Belonging To A Vast And Complicated American Family, The Powerful Sense Of Home, The Freedom From Time's Constraints, And The Great Gift Of Accumulated Memory Than Does Our National Pastime.

The Genius Of Our Country Is Improvisation, And Jazz Reflects That. It's Our Great Contribution To The Arts.

We All Think That An Exception Is Going To Be Made In Our Case And Were Going To Live Forever. Being A Human Is Actually Arriving At The Understanding That Thats Not Going To Be. Story Is There To Remind Us That Its Just Ok.

Filmmaking Is Essentially About Entertainment, But It's Amazing To Realize That It Has This Other Muscle That Could Actually Help. Do You Know What I Mean? People Permit Entertainment To Wash Over Them, But Every Once And A While, Entertainment - And This Is Entertaining - Also Galvanizes Something Else And That Would Be A Really Good Thing To Have Happen In This Case.

One Of The Things I Really Like About Ford's Films Is How There Is Always A Focus On The Way Characters Live, And Not Just The Male Heroes.