“I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: movies
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“Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: history
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“You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: learning
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“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: history
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“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.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: relationship
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“I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.”
— Ken Burns
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“By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.”
— Ken Burns
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Category: nature
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