Ken Burns

So I hung up and I realized, just tell it the way it happened.

So everybody either puts Vicksburg after Gettysburg or Vicksburg before, but actually Vicksburg happens before and during and after Gettysburg.

And that's exactly the way.

And then he called me up and he said it again.

He said, maybe a couple of years later, he goes, God's the greatest dramatist.

Who would have thought that Lee would surrender the grant?

And a few days later, Lincoln would have enough free time after 18 hours of days prosecuting the war to go to the theater.

God is the greatest dramatist.

No, just tell the story.

Just tell the story.

And then, and people say, what's your structure?

I go, and then, and then, and then.

If you look at our World War II drama, we land at D-Day, go back to the reaction and then go to Saipan.

Because that's what the front page of the paper is looking at.

Everybody does, oh, we'll do the European, then we'll go to do the Pacific.

And then you have no idea of their continuity.

And so we then go back and they're having trouble breaking out of the hedgerows.

And then you go back to the middle of the Battle of Saipan.

It's the greatest cataclysm in human history.

We can do better.