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

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker. "

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

" 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. "