Ken Burns

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

— Ken Burns

#certain #film #going #grew #head

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. ↗

— Ken Burns

#because #born #bridge #brooklyn #children

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault. ↗

— Ken Burns

#bad #done #entirely #ever #far

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

— Ken Burns

#before #faulkner #history #i #just

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

#asked #film #i #made #over

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

#amplify #brought #emotions #end #feel

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

— Ken Burns

#assumptions #challenge #diaries #evidence #history

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. ↗

— Ken Burns

#end #end of the day #identify #irritant #know

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

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

#always #characters #films #focus #ford