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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" Church singing is a great training ground. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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. "

" You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

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