Ken Burns
17 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2022 by Ken Burns · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Apr 11, 2022
Burns scales to seven concurrent productions to sustain his freelance workforce
“What I needed to do in order to keep that team going was not just have one project, but have two, or three, or now seven going at once, and so it's economies of scale, so it feels like the same not Sisyphean, but like you're climbing Mount Everest in terms of …”
Apr 11, 2022 negative
Burns: Florentine Films routinely rejects sponsors' attempts to influence content
“There have been many, many times when people have tried to cross the line, trying to influence content, trying to tell us what to do or not do, or that this is a little bit too hard, or this is too this or that, and we just go, sorry, you know.”
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Burns: Viewing work as a conventional career ladder is a form of imprisonment
“In fact, later on, as Robert Penn Warren told me when I was working on Huey Long, he said, careerism is death. So I've actually never used the word career I use the word, unless I'm speaking like this, I use the word professional life, because he had instilled…”
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Burns: Florentine Films structures each documentary as a separate zero-profit LLC
“Each project is its own separate LLC, it's its own bucket, there's no profit margin, there's no contingency, we just empty that budget, everybody gets paid, and essentially, we are all still freelance in this company, right? We exist as long as there is an ope…”
Apr 11, 2022 positive
Burns: Streaming platforms offer $30M, but only PBS allows 10-year timelines
“There's no other place where any of these films could have been made. You know, I could go out to a you know, a Streaming service or to a premium cable channel and say, hey, I'm making a film on Vietnam, and with my track record, they'd say, how much do you ne…”
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Burns: Retaining IP ownership prevents studio executives from sanitizing historical truths
“My insistence that I am not giving up the ownership of the film, because the second you do that, then there's someone else who might say, About James Baldwin, ah, I'm not sure about that. You know, there's some suit somewhere that would wish that it would not …”
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Ken Burns: Watching his father cry at 'Odd Man Out' sparked his filmmaking career
“That's what made me want to become a filmmaker, so I saw my dad cry for the first time watching Sir Carol Reed's Odd Man Out with James Mason about the Irish troubles, and he just cried, and I suddenly, I got it instantly. I was, by that time, just 12, and, bu…”
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Apr 11, 2022 positive
Burns: Avoiding NYC overhead for rural New Hampshire was his best decision
“So I used to say that that was the best professional decision I made moving to Walpole. It's not. It's actually the second best professional decision. The best decision was to stay there. And it's because this is so labor intensive. It requires so much time. I…”