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. Morgan Neville Read Quote
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. Morgan Neville Read Quote
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. Morgan Neville Read Quote
When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You’re all doing it for the right reasons. Morgan Neville Read Quote
If you’re not doing it for the right reasons, then you’d be dumb to be making documentaries. Morgan Neville Read Quote
I feel like there’s a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers. Morgan Neville Read Quote
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. Morgan Neville Read Quote
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. Morgan Neville Read Quote
