Steve Lacy

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.