You Don't Work On Something For Six

I Can Understand Why Some Of These Drummers And Bass Players Become Cult Figures With All Of Their Equipment And The Incredible Amount Of Technique They Have. But There's Very Little That I Think Satisfies You Intellectually Or Emotionally.

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

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

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.

I Think We Too Often Make Choices Based On The Safety Of Cynicism, And What We're Lead To Is A Life Not Fully Lived. Cynicism Is Fear, And It's Worse Than Fear - It's An Active Disengagement.