American - Director | July 29, 1953 -
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
Ken Burns
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When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad.
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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
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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 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 don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
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The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
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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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