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" 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. "

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

Morgan Neville

Kind

Never

Success

" There's no cultural revolution by mistake. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We had an incredible experience on '20 Feet.' "

" 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. "

Morgan Neville

Got

Music

" 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. "

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

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

Morgan Neville

General

Made

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

" Everyone feels entitled to their own facts. "

" 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. "

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

" Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Morgan Neville

Power

I Am

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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