Quote by Ken Burns
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment

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

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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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History
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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. – Ken Burns

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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. – Ken Burns

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The core of the movie business remains intact and its not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever. – Joel Silver

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Movies are very subjective. – Jeff Bridges

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Immortals is all action. I love action movies. Thats really where I want to spearhead my career. – Kellan Lutz

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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. – Laura Dern

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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer, Iliad

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Sorry if these lines are irregular in length and jolty in meter. – J.F. Bowman, 1868 [a little altered —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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