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

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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

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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 than fear - it's active disengagement.

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

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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 critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

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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, which is what I do for a living.

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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

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

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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 29th, 1953

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