The Stories From 1975 On

We Strain To Listen To The Ghosts And Echoes Of Our Inexpressibly Wise Past, And We Have An Obligation To Maintain These Places, To Provide These Sanctuaries, So That People May Be In The Presence Of Forces Larger Than Those Of The Moment.

I Think We Too Often Make Choices Based On The Safety Of Cynicism, And What We're Lead To Is A Life Not Fully Lived. Cynicism Is Fear, And It's Worse Than Fear - It's An Active Disengagement.

I Don't Think That There Has Been A Film That I've Done That Hasn't Been Influenced By Libraries And Archives.

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.

We're Having A Hard Time Understanding Where Jazz Is Going. What Happened To Jazz?