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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. "

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

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

" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

" The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. "

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

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

" Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity. "

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