I Wake The Dead. I

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?

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

The Only Art Form That Americans Have Created That's Recognized Around The World Is Jazz Music Born In A Community That Had The Peculiar Experience Of Being Unfree In A Free Land.

Do Something That Will Last And Be Beautiful. It Doesn't Have To Be A Bridge-or A Symphony Or Book Or A Business. It Could Be The Look In The Eye Of A Child You Raise Or A Simple Garden You Tend. Do Something That Will Last And Be Beautiful.

Civics Is In Fact Politics, And Politics Is How Things Work Not Only In The Political Realm But In Every Other Realm. It May Be This Simple Mechanical Glitch That Unites Everything. This Is My Philosophy.