The Genius Of Our Country Is Improvisation,

I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music The Way I Research The Photographs Or The Facts In My Scripts.

A Jazz Beat Is A Dynamic Changing Rhythm.

I'm A Filmmaker. I'm An Artist. I've Chosen To Work In History The Way Someone Might Choose To Work In Still Lifes Or Landscapes.

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 Wake The Dead. I Bring Jackie Robinson And The Roosevelts To Life. Who Do You Think Im Trying To Wake Up?