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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.

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Everybody, About, Whomever

Church singing is a great training ground.

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Training, Singing, Church, Training Ground

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

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Culture, War, Easiest, Erase

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

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Singer, Backup, Means, Dime

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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Perfect, Singer, Any, Backup

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.

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Celebrity, Shy, Had, Backup

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

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Think, I Think, Olympic, Samsung

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

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New, Year, Eve, The Who

I think, in the West, we often discount the arts as nice but not that important. Certainly in America when we cut funding for schools, the arts are the first programs to go. But the arts built the things we need more than anything else: collaboration and co-operation and creativity.

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I Think, Cut, Anything Else, Discount

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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Own, Like, Been, Rock Stars

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.

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Best, Perfect, Sometimes, Noir

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

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Kind, Making, Failures, Prolonged

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.

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Impossible, Tell, Here, Adhere

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.

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Rules, Come, Them, Debates

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?

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Love, Business, Films, Celebrating

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

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I Am, Big, Believer, Journalism

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

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Alone, Harmony, Meant, Meant To Be

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.

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Making, Like, By The Time, None

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.

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Records, About, Exploded, None

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

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Thought, I Wish, About, None

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.

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Politics, Country, Jon, Weird Way

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.

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Love, Tell, Aspiring, Tick

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

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Love, Music, Including, Bowie

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

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Teeth, Could, Sink, Bowie

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.

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Night, Willing, Had, Camera

Success and singing is not synonymous.

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Success, Singing, Synonymous

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

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Loved, Always, Cameron, Produced

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

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Love, Memphis, I Love, Being There

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

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Music, Empathy, Like, Tool

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.

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Will, Silk, Larger, Lens

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