People Tend To Forget That

I Treat The Photograph As A Work Of Great Complexity In Which You Can Find Drama. Add To That A Careful Composition Of Landscapes, Live Photography, The Right Music And Interviews With People, And It Becomes A Style.

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.

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.

You Know, You Meet Some People, And Do A Lot Of Interviews, And You Come Across A Buck O'neill And You Know You Are Going To Know Him For The Rest Of Your Life. The Same Thing Happened With.

I Have Made A Film About Jazz That Tries To Look Through Jazz To See What It Tells Us About Who We Are As A People. I Think That Jazz Is A Spectacularly Accurate Model Of Democracy And A Kind Of Look Into Our Redemptive Future Possibilities.