Unified Narrative Quotes

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.

Most records are usually not united by one specific story, but that seems to be something that I like and that I find easy to do.