There Are No Ordinary Lives.

Wynton Told Us That Miles Sold Out, Just Wanted To Make More Money, Just Wanted To Sell More Records. I Don't Believe That Miles Sold Out But I'm Not In A Position To Say.

I Don't Think That There Has Been A Film That I've Done That Hasn't Been Influenced By Libraries And Archives.

I Read Cover To Cover Every Jazz Publication That I Could And In The New York Times, Every Single Day Reading Their Jazz Reviews Even Though I Didn't Put Them In The Films. I Wanted To Know What Is Going On.

The Reason Why You Do History, And Particularly Why You Do War, Is That You Want To Make Sure That In The Next War, Some Lessons Were Learned. There's A Saying: "history Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "what Has Been Will Be Again. What Has Been Done Will Be Done Again." Human Nature Always Superimposes Itself - Its Strength And Its Frailty Over The Rush Of Chaos Of Ongoing Events - And We Can Perceive Patterns And Themes And Motifs.

I Grew Up Certain For A While That I Was Going To Be An Anthropologist, Until Film Turned My Head.