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Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.

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Journalists, whose job is to pull back and tell dramatic stories that bring power into focus, find it impossible because things like economic theory are both incomprehensible and, above all, boring. The same is true of 'management science.'

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The problem with wonks is that they can't deal with emotion and feeling, and they don't like stories. It means that they cannot connect at all with the feelings and imaginations of the voters.

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I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.

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I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film - and how you feel as you watch the images.

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One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

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Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

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'American Honey' takes you into the feelings of a girl travelling through the United States while giddily in love. You see modern America through her intense feelings. But again and again the film pulls the rug out from under your feet - scenes never play out as you expect.

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Tyler Kent was a horrible man. He was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution.

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When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: May 25th, 1955

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