“There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.” FeelsKindDoubtLike YouCapableCatWeightNo DoubtGoing OutFloatingGarlicUltrasWhipping Author:Les Blank
“I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.” IfsKnowsWantWarCountryStatesAmericaUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesCivil WarUnited States Of America Author:Ken Burns
“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.” FeelsMomentsPastFilmInterestingDramaHollywoodDocumentariesHollywood MoviesDocumentary Films Author:Ken Burns
“I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.” WayFactsUseResearchPhotographScriptsComposer Author:Ken Burns
“I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.” FilmCertainGrewGrew UpAnthropologists Author:Ken Burns
“I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.” PeopleThinkingTryingLooksKindMadeFilmDemocracyPossibilityModelsJazzRedemptionWho We AreAccurateFuture Possibilities Author:Ken Burns
“We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK.” ThinkingHumansMadeStoriesUnderstandingCasesForeverExceptionLive ForeverArriving Author:Ken Burns
“I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.” ThinkingPlayProblemCertainStuffRocksInvolvedMusic IsMusicalRhythmSoloPredictableFusionVirtuosity Author:Ken Burns