I Enjoy Total Creative Control Right Now.

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.

Jazz Is A Very Accurate, Curiously Accurate Accompaniment To 20th Century America.

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.

I Record All Of My Music With Authentic Instruments In A Studio Before We Start Editing, Doing Many, Many Versions. The Music Shapes The Film As We Edit So It Has An Organic Relationship To The Content.

History Is Malleable. A New Cache Of Diaries Can Shed New Light, And Archeological Evidence Can Challenge Our Popular Assumptions.