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I Think We Too Often Make Choices Based On The Safety Of Cynicism, And What We're Lead To Is A Life Not Fully Lived. Cynicism Is Fear, And It's Worse Than Fear - It's An Active Disengagement.

The Only Art Form That Americans Have Created That's Recognized Around The World Is Jazz Music Born In A Community That Had The Peculiar Experience Of Being Unfree In A Free Land.

I Can Understand Why Some Of These Drummers And Bass Players Become Cult Figures With All Of Their Equipment And The Incredible Amount Of Technique They Have. But There's Very Little That I Think Satisfies You Intellectually Or Emotionally.

I Have Made All My Films For My Children With The Exception Of My First Film Because My Oldest Daughter Wasn't Born When I Was Making The Film About The Brooklyn Bridge.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.