Morgan Neville

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

I'd worked on music docs for years. It felt like writing a novel. By the time I got to Keith Richards, it felt like making a sketch.

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.

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.

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

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?