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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

" 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. "

" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" 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. "