Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.