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

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" 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. "

" I always like learning the small details about a subject. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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 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 think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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