The Genius Of Our Country Is Improvisation,

We Strain To Listen To The Ghosts And Echoes Of Our Inexpressibly Wise Past, And We Have An Obligation To Maintain These Places, To Provide These Sanctuaries, So That People May Be In The Presence Of Forces Larger Than Those Of The Moment.

We're Having A Hard Time Understanding Where Jazz Is Going. What Happened To Jazz?

I Don't Think That There Has Been A Film That I've Done That Hasn't Been Influenced By Libraries And Archives.

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

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