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" I wish I didn't care about what people thought as much as Keith Richards doesn't care. "
Morgan Neville
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" I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on. "
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" 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. "
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" Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact. "
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" Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy. "
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" Success and singing is not synonymous. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie. "
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" 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. "
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" There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along. "
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" Church singing is a great training ground. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones. "
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" The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. "
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" To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take. "
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" Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values. "
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" I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary. "
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" I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook. "
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