Ken Burns Quotes

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear -- it's active disengagement.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

At the beginning of my baseball film, writer Gerald Earley said that...2000 years from now, we'll only be known for three things; the Constitution, baseball and jazz music.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear-it's active disengagement.