I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. — Morgan Neville Big Copy Share Image
Docs, in general, are made in the edit bay, archival docs even more so. — Morgan Neville Edit Copy Share Image
By the rules of debate, if you lose your cool, you've lost the game. — Morgan Neville Cool Copy Share Image
If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries. — Morgan Neville Documentaries Copy Share Image
I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly. — Morgan Neville Great Copy Share Image
The best music films are not about music... Music is just the language we're speaking to tell a story about culture. — Morgan Neville Best Copy Share Image
Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth. — Morgan Neville Cable Copy Share Image
I never got into making documentaries for any kind of success, because documentary careers are generally ones of prolonged failures. — Morgan Neville Documentary Copy Share Image
TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea. — Morgan Neville Better Copy Share Image
If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded. — Morgan Neville About Copy Share Image
I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker. — Morgan Neville Always Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a randomness in real life that too many Hollywood movies just shave off. It feels too intentional, and… — Morgan Neville Hollywood movies Copy Share Image
You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize… — Morgan Neville Fans Copy Share Image
One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like… — Morgan Neville Challenges Copy Share Image
Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show,… — Morgan Neville Magazine Copy Share Image
Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean,… — Morgan Neville America Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point,… — Morgan Neville 1960s Copy Share Image
How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for… — Morgan Neville Business Copy Share Image
When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains.… — Morgan Neville Actors Copy Share Image
I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for… — Morgan Neville Best Copy Share Image
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… — Morgan Neville Band Copy Share Image
The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How… — Morgan Neville Aghast Copy Share Image
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… — Morgan Neville Beer Copy Share Image
I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie. — Morgan Neville Being Copy Share Image
Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy. — Morgan Neville Cinema Copy Share Image
They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore. — Morgan Neville Gore Copy Share Image
I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook. — Morgan Neville Affects Copy Share Image
