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" 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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" 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. "

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" I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact. "

" I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. "

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

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world. "

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

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