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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.”
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 …”
Burns: Florentine Films layered 15 to 20 audio tracks on documentary scenes
“It was usually just tramping feet, firing guns, just one or two tracks, and we were doing 15 or 20 tracks.”
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…”
Burns: Ken Burns has gone six months without taking salary
“I've gone at times periods of six months where I haven't drawn a salary because we're coming to the end of a project, and I realize that money can be spent better on something else.”