Ken Burns

that they want the founders' higher emotions.

As I said, not sentimentality, not nostalgia.

Those are the enemies of anything.

But the higher emotions.

Sometimes we say that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

What is the difference between that?

If you've added up all the sum of the parts and it comes here, what's that?

And what it means is that as much as to build a table,

to build a bridge or a highway, one and one always has to equal two.

The things that matter in our lives are where one and one equals three, where we are able to see something that's bigger, that something is produced by the collision of two musical notes, by two images in a documentary, by the conversation between two human beings.

whatever in which something is possible.

I'm interested in whatever energy that creates.

With whom?

I mean, you just don't know that that person at the convenience store that you just kind of like don't even look and don't even think about has a life as important as yours.

You're driving on the highway.

We're coming down from Dallas this morning on 35, you know, thousands, thousands of cars going out of the direction.

The person in that car is looking and their life is as full as what I'm seeing out of my eyes.

And I know sitting here that you're seeing something totally different than what I'm seeing.

And that life is as full.

And I think good history, good friendship, good storytelling, good conversation all have at its base the respect for the other point of view, the ability to listen, and that kind of desire...