It didnt matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. – Jon Landau
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent Basement Tapes will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilsons reasons for the destruction of the tapes for Smile. – Jon Landau
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. – Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. – Jon Landau
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. Im attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isnt quite what Im seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff Ive never seen before. – Quentin Tarantino