Famous Ken Burns Quotes

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
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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.
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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
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