Helen Clark: The Road to Power

That's one of the things that we've tried to do with the documentary, balance the political with the personal.

– Co-director Dan Salmon on the TV3 website, July 2013

You can have the most brilliant ideas and the greatest vision and a lot of strengths in every respect, but if you appear on television and people are mesmerised by what you're wearing or your hairstyle, they won't hear anything you say at all.

– Helen Clark

I talked to him about New Zealand history and how he had to step up and speak if he wanted to be remembered as part of that history. And so he did, and he was really good.

– Co-director Dan Salmon, on persuading Don Brash to do an interview for The Road to Power, TV3 website