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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "