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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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" 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. "

" Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "