Ken Burns Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.”

“Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.”

“The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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