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Fear
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Bridge
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

America
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Nov 07, 2020

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

End Of The Day
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Nov 07, 2020

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Flickering
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Nov 07, 2020

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

Nov 07, 2020

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Justice
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Nov 07, 2020

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Time
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Nov 07, 2020

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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