The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
There are no ordinary lives.
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.