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" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

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" 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. "

" The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere. "

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

" 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. "

" To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take. "

" 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. "

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

" The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

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

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

" 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. "

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