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

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.