You Need, As A Historian, Essential Triangulation

It Is The Great Arrogance Of The Present To Forget The Intelligence Of The Past

In Most Films Music Is Brought In At The End, After The Picture Is More Or Less Locked, To Amplify The Emotions The Filmmaker Wants You To Feel.

You Can Learn As Much About The History From Reading About The Present As You Can Vice Versa, That Is Learning About The Present Through History, Which Is What I Do For A Living.

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

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.