In Most Films Music Is Brought In

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.

I Never, Ever Want To Apologize For A Film. If It's Bad I'll Say It's My Fault. And That's What I Can Say So Far In All The Films That I've Done, That If You Don't Like It, It's Entirely My Fault.

You Need, As A Historian, Essential Triangulation From Your Subject And The Only Way You Get That Triangulation Is Through Time.

Good History Is A Question Of Survival. Without Any Past, We Will Deprive Ourselves Of The Defining Impression Of Our Being.

I Have Made A Film About Jazz That Tries To Look Through Jazz To See What It Tells Us About Who We Are As A People. I Think That Jazz Is A Spectacularly Accurate Model Of Democracy And A Kind Of Look Into Our Redemptive Future Possibilities.