“You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject an...” — Ken Burns Quote

“You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.”

“You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.”

“I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.”

“Knowing how people will use something is essential.”

“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”

“Everybody needs one essential friend.”