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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

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

" Church singing is a great training ground. "

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

" When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975. "

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

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

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

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

" The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time. "

" 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. "