Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a political movement, and was a master debater. They were multihyphenates in a way that you rarely see anymore.
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.
When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.
If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.
I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.
We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975.
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.
I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.
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.
Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.
'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.
Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.
Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.
We had an incredible experience on '20 Feet.'
I always like learning the small details about a subject.
I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook.
I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.
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.
I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker.
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.
