Ken Burns

I mean, you started off by talking about entertainment, that you could make something that is, you know, technically educational, entertaining.

This is a good story.

I mean, the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus high.

Yeah.

which is a really good way to begin a story, right?

And then we begin the thing.

And so I've tried to treat it as that way.

I understand, and PBS is really good, and one of the reasons to stay with them is that they can reach every classroom in the country.

So today's a school day in America, and hundreds of classrooms are showing a little bit of the Civil War, a little bit of baseball, a little bit of jazz, Lewis and Clark, the Roosevelts, country music, you name it.

And I love that idea that it isn't,

Like broadcast television or even just the release of anything like Skywriting, the first breeze and then all of a sudden you can't see the words anymore.

I like the fact that a film I made 35 years ago in the Civil War is like as durable now as it was then.

That's all PBS.

Yes.

Exactly, and we have let...

A lot of what is fun about it – we've sort of taken history out.

We've taken civics out.

We don't know about ethics.

We don't know about values.

We've placed everything over into one sort of set of educational prerogatives for getting that.