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"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 put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
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"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."
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"I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well."
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"Life is all about doing what you feel is best for you."
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"I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started."
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"Susannah continued. 'If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."
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"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion."
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"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
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"The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters."
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"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter."
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"The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example."
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"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."
Focus
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."
Movies
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
Identity
"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."
History
"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."
Film
"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."
Money
"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."
Control
"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."
Film
"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."
Work
"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"
Time
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