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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.

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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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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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The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: October 10th, 1967

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