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

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"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

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"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."

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"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."

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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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"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."

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"By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz."

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"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."

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"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

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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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