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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?

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  Who , Sense , Over , Same


I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  View , Just , History , Now


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.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  Children , Bridge , Daughter , Born


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

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  America , Jazz , Very , 20th Century


I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  You , Myself , Work , Think


The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  Years , Justice , Jazz , Last


You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  You , Your , Time , Way


When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  You , People , Things , Editing


When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  Bad , Style , Mean , Shooting


By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

Author: Ken Burns - American Director
  Nature , Person , Jazz , Center


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