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

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" When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is. "

" Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world. "

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

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

" I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties or shills of whatever stripe. "

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

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

" To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take. "

" 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. "

" There are a handful of music docs I'd love to do, including David Bowie. "

" The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones. "

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

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

" When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons. "

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

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

" In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point, they realised, 'We can get real African-American voices on our records; we don't have to pretend any more.' "

" I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on. "

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

" 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. "

" The presidential and vice-presidential debates are those rare moments when people come together, but to even call them debates is a stretch because they're played by such negotiated rules, and they're so over-rehearsed. "

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

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

" The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere. "

" 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. "

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

" 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. "