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

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

" Sometimes we have our perfect foils, or you can call them their bete noir: the person who brings out both the best and the worst in you because you disagree with them so completely. Yet, you understand and respect them enough to give it your all. "

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

" We had an incredible experience on '20 Feet.' "

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

" I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker. "

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

" 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. "

" Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth. "

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

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

" There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along. "

" Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

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" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

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" Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality. "

" You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries. "

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

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

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

" In a weird way, our satirists probably have the most complicated, nuanced views of our politics now - Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver. I don't know what that says about our country. "

" So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other. "

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