Morgan Neville (documentary filmmaker)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Comedy, Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Morgan Neville (The Saint of Second Chances, Roadrunner, Won't You Be My Neighbor) is a filmmaker, producer, and writer. Morgan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people love documentaries, why he had so many books in his childhood home, and how Los Angeles's history differs from other American cities. Morgan and Dax talk about what it means to be a good singer, what Mr. Rogers did for the perception of masculinity, and why some people are addicted to work. Morgan explains how he selects his film topics, how the production of documentaries is different than scripted, and what he has learned about his own life while making his films. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on experts. I'm Dan Neville and I'm joined by Monica Morgan
0:06.3	I loved this this was really really fun. You didn't did you what did you go watch the doc
0:13.4	Not yet. Oh, you better by time for the fact check. I will okay. Don't fuck this up
0:19.0	You're tired a lot and you're watching a lot of TV show get this in the mix Morgan Neville is our guest today
0:24.3	He's an academy award-winning
0:26.7	Documentarian or a documentary film maker
0:30.2	Take your best. I mean, wow. Yeah, it's pretty bonkers how many of his docs
0:35.5	I had seen and not really tied it all together
0:38.4	You may recall if you listen to the Letterman episode
0:41.0	He was the director of the Letterman doc about you too that Letterman was referring to his Morgan Freeman
0:47.6	But alas, it's not Morgan Freeman. It's Morgan Neville incredible movies Roadrunner that beautiful
0:53.0	Anthony Bourdain doc 20 feet from Stardom. That's the Academy Award winner. Won't you be my neighbor?
0:58.9	Beautiful beautiful doc best of enemies
1:01.0	Bono in the Edge as we just discussed and a new documentary out right now on Netflix called the saint of second chances that he co-directed with Jeff
1:09.2	Mulberg now
1:10.6	This is the most twisty-turning fun feel good doc. I've seen in years. It's it's so fun and positive
1:17.4	I liked it so much. I hope everyone checks it out. Please enjoy Morgan Neville
1:22.2	He's in our chance
1:36.9	We're picking out candles together right now
1:40.4	Yes, and Rob great. Where have you been looking? I mentioned the age 24 makes film genre theme candles
1:48.5	And they sent me a documentary candle. Yes, so now we're browsing all the genres of candle. What does the documentary?
1:56.2	Desperation is what I said
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