History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.