People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story"..

We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understandin….

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts..

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….

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

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

The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There'….

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

I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that came before ….

There are no ordinary lives..

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of com….

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?.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of ….

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head..

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 e….

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about ….

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are..

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and the….

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, whi….

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pea….