I Wake The Dead. I Bring Jackie

History's Just Been Made For Sale To An Inside Deal.

I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music The Way I Research The Photographs Or The Facts In My Scripts.

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 Commercial Gain.

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 It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

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.