More From Ken Burns
- "I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Birthday
- "I was fired by ‘America’s Next Top Model’ on my birthday."― Paulina Porizkova
- "Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work."― Karl Jaspers
- "I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis’ birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."― Otis Blackwell