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" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

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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. "

" I always like learning the small details about a subject. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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, 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. "

" 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 love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. "

" 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. "

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