By Its Very Nature, No

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

The Genius Of Our Country Is Improvisation, And Jazz Reflects That. It's Our Great Contribution To The Arts.

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.

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.

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.