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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 Grew Up Certain For A While That I Was Going To Be An Anthropologist, Until Film Turned My Head.

I Read Cover To Cover Every Jazz Publication That I Could And In The New York Times, Every Single Day Reading Their Jazz Reviews Even Though I Didn't Put Them In The Films. I Wanted To Know What Is Going On.

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

Do Not Lose Your Enthusiasm. In Its Greek Etymology, The Word Enthusiasm Means, "god In Us."