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Ken Burns quotes: In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Ken Burns quotes: I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

Ken Burns quotes: I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

Ken Burns quotes: It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

Ken Burns quotes: One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

Ken Burns quotes: We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

Ken Burns quotes: A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Ken Burns quotes: There is no communication in this world except between equals.

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

Ken Burns quotes: Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

Ken Burns quotes: I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

Ken Burns quotes: You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

Ken Burns quotes: History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Ken Burns quotes: People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Ken Burns quotes: History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Ken Burns quotes: I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Ken Burns quotes: Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Ken Burns quotes: I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Ken Burns quotes: I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Ken Burns quotes: In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Ken Burns quotes: By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

Ken Burns quotes: Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Ken Burns quotes: The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

Ken Burns quotes: The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Ken Burns quotes: You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

Ken Burns quotes: There are no ordinary lives.

There are no ordinary lives.

Ken Burns quotes: Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns quotes: The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Ken Burns quotes: I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Ken Burns quotes: History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

Ken Burns quotes: It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

Ken Burns quotes: The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.