In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived.… — Ken Burns Copy Share
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to… — Ken Burns Copy Share
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. — Ken Burns Copy Share
“Jackie Robinson stole home and he's safe."...Nobody could hurt him again. He wouldn't hear the name-calling. He would only hear the cheers and somehow… — Ken Burns Copy Share
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of… — Ken Burns Copy Share
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are… — Ken Burns Copy Share
