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" So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other. "

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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. "

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

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

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

" 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 I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded. "

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

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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 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. "

" If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values. "

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones. "

" 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. "

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

" I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker. "

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

" 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. "

" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

" 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. "

" We had an incredible experience on '20 Feet.' "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" At the beginning of the '70s, everything was possible. "

" 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. "