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Extra: Ken Burns | People I (Mostly) Admire

Freakonomics Radio

CHAPTER

A Filmmaker's Journey

Filmmaker says he knew he wanted to be a film maker at 12. His mother died when he was 11, and his father cried for the first time after her death. He learned how to delegate as an academic economist but didn't like doing data analysis. The way you make your movies now is very different from what you did in college.

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