Jazz Has Endured Because It Doesn't Have

I Am Not An Expert. That Is Someone Else's Job. If I Were Expert, The Approach Would Be All Wrong. It Would Be From The Inside. I Am A Blunderer. I Usually Don't Know What I Am Going Into At The Start. I Go Into The Fog And Trust Something Will Be There.

I Am Not An Expert. That Is Someone Else's Job. If I Were Expert, The Approach Would Be All Wrong. It Would Be From The Inside. I Am A Blunderer. I Usually Don't Know What I Am Going Into At The Start. I Go Into The Fog And Trust Something Will Be There.

People Have Asked Me Throughout The Years Which Directors Have Influenced Me. I Don't Know Their Names, Because I Was Mostly Influenced When I'd See A Film And Think, "man, I Want To Be Sure To Never Do Anything Like That." So I Never Learned Their Names. It Wasn't A Matter Of Copying Or Emulating Somebody I Admired. It Was Getting Rid Of A Lot Of Stuff.

If Something Works For You, You Continue To Do It. I Did A Bunch Of Pictures For 20th Century Fox When Alan Ladd Was Over There, But I Set The Budgets So Low That They'd Approve And I'd Deliver The Film. They Would Have No Say In It, Which Is The Kind Of Arrangement I Liked.

Happy Endings Are Absolutely Ludicrous, They're Not True At All. We See The Guy Carry The Girl Across The Threshold And Everybody Lives Happily Ever After -- That's Bullshit. Three Weeks Later He's Beating Her Up And She's Suing For Divorce And He's Got Cancer.