Florentine Films: Ken Burns

For many, many years I had on my desk two three ring binders, each of them three or four inches wide. filled with all the rejections, and I kept them there just to remind me that you could have The best idea in the world. All the talent, but there was some other ingredient that had to do with stubbornness or perseverance, and I don't know where I got that. That's why I kept those no's and I was just trying to get people to yes.

Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. they built. Guy Raz and on the show today How Ken Burns built one of the most valuable documentary archives in the world and became one of the most iconic filmmakers. This generation.

There's a black and white photo in an old National Geographic from the mid nineteen fifties of a young mother spooning food into her baby's mouth. The baby sits in a high chair looking straight at the camera. And the mother smiles gently at her son. It's a photo of true love. The baby in the photo. Is Ken Burns.

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