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Ken Burns


American
July 29, 1953
Director
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.


Ken Burns
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.


Ken Burns
Tags: History Just Been
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The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.


Ken Burns
Tags: Work Than Never
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.


Ken Burns
Tags: Up Going Film
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
Ken Burns
Tags: You Like Know
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. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
Tags: Fear Think Life
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.
Ken Burns
Tags: Movies Truth More
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 say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
Ken Burns
Tags: You Like Want
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
Ken Burns