Occupation: Producer Birth: July 29, 1953
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'….
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 ….
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes..
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us.".
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….
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….
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest ….
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches..
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….
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now..
There are no ordinary lives..
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts..
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story"..
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are..
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….
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever..
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn..
Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanica….
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes..
History's just been made for sale to an inside deal..