Ken Burns

Maybe it gets worse.

Maybe it gets better.

Probably gets better.

And it's no harm in reaching out to other people.

And the hardest thing of all is to be kind to yourself.

This is what Robert Penn Warren meant when he said to me, careerism is death.

He just was saying, you've got to find that thing.

And people, when I talk to students, they want to know what the secret is.

And I go, there's only two secrets.

One is to know yourself.

And that may be understanding that...

I thought I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I don't have anything to say.

And it's perfectly legitimate to do something else, to change that thing if you do it.

And the other is to persevere because there's in every single situation many more people wanting to be in front of a mic every day.

then there are the possibility of being in front of the mic every day.

So you have to work at it really hard.

You can't make assumptions about it.

Sometimes you have to do, you know, I sort of felt like moving to New Hampshire was in The Godfather going to the mattresses.

You know, it's like, okay, I got handed a job.

I needed a job.