Good stories are complicated

[Ken Burns talks about why he loves conflict, villans and complications](http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2012/05/ken-burns-on-story/257165/). A few choice quotes:

> My interest is always in complicating things.

> All story is manipulation.

> The kind of narrative I subscribe [to] trusts in the possibility that people could change.

> We do coalesce around stories that seem transcendent.