Ken Burns Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ken Burns
Ken Burns Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ken Burns on Wise Famous 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.
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 don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.
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.
Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
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?
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
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.
I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.