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

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

" I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" Politicians pretend not to be smart. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

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

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

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

" Success and singing is not synonymous. "

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

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

" 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. "