American - Producer | October 10, 1967 -
'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.
Morgan Neville
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Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.
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I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.
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I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.
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By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game.
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I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.
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I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.
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There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.
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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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Everyone feels entitled to their own facts.
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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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They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.
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