Ken Burns: Telling tall tales

Tacked up on Ken Burns' office door is a quote from famous theater director Tyrone Guthrie, which reads: 'We are looking for ideas large enough to be afraid of again.' Burns calls it 'a wonderfully convoluted sentence,' but it's this concept that Burns and his team embody. Those at Walpole, New Hampshire-based prodco Florentine Films are known for tackling mammoth topics in series such as Jazz, Baseball and The Civil War. 'We just grab a whole subject with gusto, and perhaps naivety, and find a way to tell the story,' says Burns, who has been making films for more than 30 years.