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