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" A lot of backup singers are really shy and don't want their life documented. They're not pining to be celebrity. They've had a front-row look at celebrity for a long time, and most people find out it's not for them. "

" As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates. "

" At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible. "

" Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore. "

" By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game. "

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

" Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others. "

" Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact. "

" Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone. "

" How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business? "

" I always like learning the small details about a subject. "

" I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world. "

" I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. "

" I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker. "

" I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary. "

" I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch. "

" I feel like I'm in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they're putting in me. "

" I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly. "

" I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers. "

" I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice. "

" If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded. "

" If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values. "

" If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions? "

" If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told. "

" If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries. "

" I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie. "

" I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. "

" I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook. "

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