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" 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.' "

Morgan Neville

Pretend

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General

Made

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

" I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly. "

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

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

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

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

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Political

Growing

" 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. "

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Got

Music

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

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

" 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. "

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "