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.
Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.
Charm in most men and nearly all women is a decoration.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret...
The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere...
I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major...
