Conversation Quote by Rhiannon Giddens

I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest…

— David Means

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

— Shimon Attie

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

— Austin Aries

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

— Donald Judd

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

— Michael Moore

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is…

— Simon McBurney

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans have been…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and…

— James McAvoy

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

— Bruno Tonioli

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

— Leon Redbone