I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

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

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

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?