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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on. "

" 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.' "

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

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

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

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

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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 could really sink my teeth into a David Bowie documentary. "

" 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. "