You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
Ken BurnsOne of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
Ken BurnsWhen 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.
Ken Burns