Ken Burns

But that would have said, oh, can you put that in to do that?

I think this year it'll go over and nobody will notice it.

But it's a beautiful moment.

And you begin to realize rumor, conspiracy, you know, disinformation has always been.

When the first human beings started having a conversation with one another, somebody told a lie.

Exactly.

If you don't know where you've been, you can't possibly know where you are or where you're going.

I agree with that.

I'm a filmmaker.

I'm not a historian.

I'm not professionally trained in the scholarly sense.

But I happen to choose history the way to tell my stories, the way some painter might choose oil as opposed to watercolor.

And fortunately, the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus high, which is a good way to begin a story.

So I don't want to overindulge it.

I don't want people to take a certain thing away from this.

We've worked for 10 years so that you can take away whatever you want to take away.

But I promise you that every person in this country, I did not make it for a certain subset.

I made it for everybody, and I've traveled the country.

I've said the same thing to Joe Rogan for three hours, as I said to the New York Times editorial board, as I said to inner-city kids in Charleston and Detroit and Chicago, to suburban kids, to general audiences.

I say the same thing about the story that we've told because everybody within the sound of my ears is –