Way Quote by Ken Burns Download Open image “The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.” — Ken Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Way
Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
You are always bigger than the problem, the problem can never be bigger than you. — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
A lot of times the interview relies not so much on the interviewee, but on the interviewer. — Ernie Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview… — Maria Menounos Copy Share Image
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. — Errol Morris 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 Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image