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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea of music coming from the Church is not new. "

" 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. "

" They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore. "

" 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. "

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

" Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams. "

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

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" 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. "

" You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too. "

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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. "

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" We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975. "

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

" I wish I didn't care about what people thought as much as Keith Richards doesn't care. "