Ken Burns

or more sexy, or longer, or shorter, or more violent, or less violent.

I can sit here and tell you with a great deal of pride, and not just for me, but on behalf of the extraordinary people that work with me, and some of them have been for 50 years, and some of them for 30 years, and some of them for 40, and a lot of people.

that these are director's cuts, that we haven't let it go.

And the way the country has responded to them, like the Civil War series, still 35 years old, it's still the highest rated program in the history of public television.

I can't take credit for it.

You know, I went to Hampshire College.

My teachers were social documentary still photographers.

I had a mentor named Jerome Liebling.

And he was so firmly rooted in a kind of, you know, another word, we've been talking about virtue, another word is honor or honorable, that is not engaged and people don't really use it in ordinary conversation.

He just instilled in all of us, I believe, all of his students, a sense of honor.

So there was this responsibility to follow it through, to work really hard.

I mean, I don't know anybody that works harder than us here.

You know, we really work seven days a week.

We love it.

I put my head on the pillow.

I want to know that my girls are OK, my daughters.

And I want to know that I've made a film better, you know, in some way, seven days a week, seven days a week.

And it's not that you can't take a day off and you can't do something, but you're always thinking about this stuff and you want to make them better.

And it was it's very funny.

We're out in the road and we're showing the clips.