I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.