The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

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.

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.