More From Ken Burns
- "History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
- "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."
- "You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
More In Change
- "Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don’t try violence."― Jennifer Granholm
- "We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we’re being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We’ve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn’t. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It’s the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect."― Gael Garcia Bernal
- "I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."― Tom Stoppard