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Ken Burns Quotes

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1953

Topics

Head Up Film Going Certain Until

I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.

Life People Think Most Really

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

Technology Know Watching Point TV

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.

Walk Men Me Hair Saying Pink

I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my father would give me the strength to be a person with disability that was proud, always held her head high, and was never, ever bitter.

Strength Father God Soul Me Proud

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

Work Love Business Past Thought

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Father Me Writing Loved Interesting

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Live Best Lightly Unthinkingly

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

Steven Spielberg

Love Day Book Story Grow Find

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

Sleep I Am Hotel Back Lights Turn

Theatre is very cutthroat, especially here in New York!

New York Theatre New Here Very York

I am the finest defensive player in the game.

I Am Game Defensive Player Finest

One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.

Anthony McCarten

Conflict Thinking Bridges Humour Out

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