We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
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.
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
There is no communication in this world except between equals.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.