Ken Burns Quotes
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
-
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
-
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
-
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
-
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
-
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
-
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
-
Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
-
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
-
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
-
As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
-
You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
-
You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
-
The financing of my films has always been international.
-
I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.
-
I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
-
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
