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" 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. "

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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. "

Morgan Neville

Sound

World

Road

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told. "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

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

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

Morgan Neville

General

Made

" 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. "

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

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

Morgan Neville

Political

Growing

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

" 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. "

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

Morgan Neville

Others

Important

" I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. "

Morgan Neville

Power

I Am

" I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "