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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams. "

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

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

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I wish I didn't care about what people thought as much as Keith Richards doesn't care. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded. "

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

" 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.' "

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

" 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. "

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

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