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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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. – Ken Burns

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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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Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. – Shia LaBeouf

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Its so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but theres laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. Its viable and mainstream. – Nathan Fillion

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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. – M. Night Shyamalan

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Movies are very subjective. – Jeff Bridges

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