Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

Candor disarms paranoia.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.