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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."

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

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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