“I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about...” — Ken Burns Quote

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

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.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

With the 12-step program, if you don't subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I think a lot of people can take the parts of that kind of program that they need and not other parts.

I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.