There Are No Ordinary Lives.

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.

Like A Layer On A Pearl, You Can't Specifically Identify The Irritant, The Moment Of The Irritant, But At The End Of The Day, You Know You Have A Pearl.

Write: Write Letters. Keep Journals. Besides Your Children, There Is No Surer Way Of Achieving Immortality.

In Most Films Music Is Brought In At The End, After The Picture Is More Or Less Locked, To Amplify The Emotions The Filmmaker Wants You To Feel.

Civics Is In Fact Politics, And Politics Is How Things Work Not Only In The Political Realm But In Every Other Realm. It May Be This Simple Mechanical Glitch That Unites Everything. This Is My Philosophy.