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

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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. "

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

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth. "

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

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

" 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 love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of backup singers are really shy and don't want their life documented. They're not pining to be celebrity. They've had a front-row look at celebrity for a long time, and most people find out it's not for them. "

" 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. "

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

" They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore. "