I Wake The Dead. I Bring Jackie

History Is Malleable. A New Cache Of Diaries Can Shed New Light, And Archeological Evidence Can Challenge Our Popular Assumptions.

One Of The Things I Really Like About Ford's Films Is How There Is Always A Focus On The Way Characters Live, And Not Just The Male Heroes.

I Think My Expectations For Myself Are Much More Severe And Much More Direct. You Can't Work On A Film For Six Years Without Being Your Own Toughest Critic. So You Can't Really Be Distracted By The Expectations Based On Your Previous Performance.

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

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.