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" Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible. "

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

" 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. "

" I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

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