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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 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

#before #content #doing #edit #editing

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot. ↗

— Steve Burton

#doing #get #had #him #i

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

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

— Ken Burns

#happened #hard #hard time #having #jazz

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ↗

— Ken Burns

#i #just #make #miles #money

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

— Ken Burns

#blind #myriad #other #six #something

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper. ↗

— Ron D. Burton

#business world #certain #done #each #job

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine. ↗

— Max Burns

#fine #got #i #life #now