Ken Burns

And then all of a sudden you treat the paintings like they're live and you treat the live like they're paintings.

And you've got a wonderful dynamic.

We didn't have that in Ben Franklin because you could always return to a portrait of him and it's over to him.

So this is six with, as I said, 150 different characters.

It's six feature length movies.

It's six feature length movies.

So I have a friend who's a noted director in Hollywood who wrote me after, I think I'd send him a link.

And he wrote back how much he had loved it.

And then after Christmas, he said, I looked at it again this time to look at characters.

And so you realize there's there's a lot that goes into it and it rewards sometimes second, third, fourth.

You can spend an hour on that paragraph and really get it.

But, but in a film, I'm controlling how long you see something.

And I've got lots of things going.

There's lots.

And it's not, we're trying to do it to be confusing.

It's just that it is complicated as my neon sign says.

Well, it is different in some ways in that using government as an instrumentality of social change is different from suspecting government and therefore not doing what the government says might be efficacious with regard to measles or COVID.

No, I think prohibition was already about to happen before the pandemic hit.

It may have sped it along.

I don't think it's that determinate.