There is no communication in this world except between equals.

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.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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.

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.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?