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Showing by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. All right, we're up. Mr. Burns, pleasure to meet you.
It's my pleasure, thank you.
I'm a huge fan, dude. I've been watching your work for so long, and I've always had so many questions about how a person like you becomes a person like you, how you become the preeminent documentarian of our time. I mean, you have so much work out there. It's really extraordinary. And all of it on PBS, right?
Right. All of it. All of it.
Which is also extraordinary.
You know, it's the public broadcasting service. It's the Declaration of Independence applied to communications, just as the national parks, you could say, was the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape. Like manifestations of really American things. It may not seem obvious to us, but it seemed obvious to me that that's where I should go. So I had lots of
You know, I headed for the hills out of New York, you know, 46 years ago because I thought I was taking a vow of anonymity and poverty to do this stuff. And I lived in the same house that I've lived in since then, in the same bedroom for 46 years in this tiny little village in New Hampshire. And when the first film was nominated for an Academy Award, that was a film called Brooklyn Bridge.
Everybody said, oh, you're coming back to New York. You're going to L.A. And I said, you know, I'm staying here. It's so labor intensive. And I can sit here in front of you and tell you that every single one of my films is a director's cut. I'm not going to sit here and give you an excuse. Well, that one, they wouldn't let me do this or they didn't give me this amount of time.
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