Ken Burns

And I was just so worried that I was going to put the film that I had shot for this first film on the Brooklyn Bridge on top of my refrigerator and I would just wake up and I'd be 45 years old and I would have

you know, not finished it.

And so I got offered a job, which was like, you know, being offered $800,000 a year today.

And I said no.

And I moved to New Hampshire where I could live for nothing and finished the film.

How did you choose New Hampshire?

I had a lot of friends.

I had gone to school in western Massachusetts and had a lot of friends, sort of hippies and others, that sort of after sort of alternative stuff, that after they had not – some had gone to New York and pursued sort of traditional –

professional lives, but others had become book salesmen or opened a natural food store or were a weaver or whatever it might be.

And so a lot of them gravitated in southern Vermont and southern New Hampshire, a little kind of nice little nook.

And so I ended up going to this town and had literally – I mean I walked in.

I rented the house for the first two years.

first few years and um bought it after my daughters were born um and i've lived i've been in the same bedroom for 46 years wow and it's and i don't feel cut off or starved i i know every part of the country my films have covered every part of the country and part of the shoe leather that we have to do with pbs you know because they don't have the big budgets to smother the

The American Revolution coming November 16th over every bus and subway and billboard is you go out and you talk to people.

And that puts you in touch.

And at the same time, you have this place to retreat and restore.

And every morning, I take a three-mile walk with my dog into what looks like 18th century America.

You know, talk about rich.

I agree.

Capital N. Yeah.