Occupation: Producer Birth: July 29, 1953
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique t….
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to phy….
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts..
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….
I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't….
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being..
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality..
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed..
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head..
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story"..
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us.".
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts..
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 ….
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn..
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches..
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now..
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever..
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….
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….
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 ….