A biography for Morgan Nevillehasn’t been written yet.
“TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.”
“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.”
“Everyone feels entitled to their own facts.”
“The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.”
“So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.”
“In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point, they realised, 'We can get real African-American voices on our records; we don't have to pretend any more.'”
“Everything about Hank Williams interests me. His music, his life. His death. His impact.”
“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.”
“Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.”
“I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.”
“I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.”
“I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures.”
“We had an incredible experience on '20 Feet.'”
“You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.”
“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.”
“When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.”
“How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business?”
“I always like learning the small details about a subject.”
“You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.”
“The idea of music coming from the Church is not new.”