Morgan Neville

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

The idea of music coming from the Church is not new.

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.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

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.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

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.

I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties or shills of whatever stripe.