Amy J. Berg Quotes

When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

There is no human objectivity.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

I was never a 'homer', a broadcaster who cheers the home team. Some fans don't like that. But my job wasn't to cheer. My job was to broadcast the game.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.