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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. "

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

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

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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.' "

" There are a handful of music docs I'd love to do, including David Bowie. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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