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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage as I like to put it and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
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.
Quotes By Ken Burns
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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we...
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you...
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light and...
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it...
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism and what...
Quotes About Movies
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James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of...
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What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women...
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part...
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The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything...
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I love bad movies whereas going to the theater for me is a painful...
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The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so...
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it or I wouldn't do it but I...
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The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris...