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88. Ken Burns on Heroism, Horror, and History

People I (Mostly) Admire

CHAPTER

A Filmmaker's Life Story

i knew i wanted to be a film maker at 12. After being turned down hundreds, literally hundreds of times, was able to make this film with the help of lots of really important and talented people. It's like our style just immerged in whole cloth in that very first film. I know there's not a day i'm not working right on this or the other films i'm working on. Same with sarah and lynne. But they wouldn't let me take ten days off when we were filming brooklyn bridge. We don't have any idea who would have gone into creating the hollcast documentary? Oh, you know that. No, we don't.

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