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

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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