'Well, I don’t have a future now. And this solves most of the problems.' — Richard P. Rogers

Rogers died  of a  brain tumor in 2001 at age 57.

At the time he had been working on and off on an autobiographical film for 20 years.

Much of that footage — including the quote in the headline above — was incorporated into "The Windmill Movie" (trailer above), directed by Alexander Olch and released this past summer.

An appreciation of Rogers by David Ansen, who roomed with him at Harvard in the 60s, appeared on June 14, 2009 in the New York Times.

Its final paragraph, from the film, quoted Rogers as he faced his imminent death: "'I actually feel rather good about the moment I’m going through.... Because my problem in life has always been about the future. What are you going to accomplish? What are you going to do? What is going to become of you in the future? Well, I don’t have a future now. And this solves most of the problems.' It was typical of the man that he would never own up to what, with great style and restless intelligence, he had indeed accomplished."