The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.
Ken BurnsYou need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
Ken BurnsI subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Ken BurnsI have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ken Burns