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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Morgan Neville

Got

Music

" 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. "

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

Morgan Neville

Power

I Am

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

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

" Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore. "

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

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

Morgan Neville

Creating

Music

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

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

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