“ I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear — it's active disengagement. ”
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“ You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ”
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“ You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ”
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“ I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault. ”
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“ You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. ”
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“ You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. ”
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“ I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear — it's active disengagement. ”
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“ The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ”
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“ Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. - Ken Burns. ”
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“ I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear — it's active disengagement. ”
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“ Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. ”
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“ I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. ”
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“ I 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. ”
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“ The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ”
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“ Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ”
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“ In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel. ”
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“ History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault. ”
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“ History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ”
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“ I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear — it's active disengagement. ”
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“ I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. ”
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“ You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. ”
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“ Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ”
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“ Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ”
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“ Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ”
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