Ken Burns

I need it out because the other Marvel thing is coming out at the same time.

What you need is we want to set you up with a certain set of circumstances that are going to permit you to have the best possibility of doing this.

And so we've always hit our marks.

We've always come – if we haven't been in budget, it's because we've expanded the film and then I've gone out and raised the money.

So no one else was responsible for the fact that we decided Vietnam is not going to be seven episodes.

It's going to be eight.

And, oh, you know what?

It's going to be ten.

And that's 18 hours, and that's, you know, the way that Vietnam, and it had to do with listening to the material, understanding how it spoke to us, you know, committing ourselves to recording Vietnamese voices, not just South Vietnamese soldiers and South Vietnamese civilians, but Viet Cong guerrillas, North Vietnamese soldiers, North Vietnamese civilians, as well as the range of Americans.

And so one of my favorite scenes is a North Vietnamese soldier and a Viet Cong soldier and an American all saying exactly the same thing about the same moment.

in a battle, early battle, before there were technically boots on the ground.

This was an advisor, an American advisor.

But they're all talking about a helicopter flying over this one hedge.

And the Viet Cong guy is behind the hedge.

The South Vietnamese officer is, you know, next to the American guy.

And they all have an experience of war that is exactly the same.

Brooklyn Bridge.

I had started... What year was this?

So it came out, it was first broadcast in 81 or 82.

I had been working on it since 77.