#be

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

— Ken Burns

#being #defining #deprive #good #history

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#being #live #processes #psychological #us

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

— Ken Burns

#control #creative #creative control #enjoy #i

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 had a feeling that Ben Lancaster had just tattooed himself onto my soul and the thing about tattoos? They were painful to remove. ↗

— Julie Bale

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-romance #beauty

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. ↗

— Ken Burns

#becomes #careful #complexity #composition #drama

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ↗

— Robert Burns

#fear #honest #labor #to be honest

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. ↗

— Robert Burns

#friend #us #wide #wide world #without

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing. ↗

— Steve Burns

#beyond #continue #doing #even #film

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#beholder #both #holder #intoxicating #often