Jonathan Powell Quotes

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself - I didn't like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, 'I'm overacting. Be smaller.' I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV.

When I lived in London, I worked at the U.N. for a while as its human rights and refugees officer. I have two degrees, and my second was in radio. I was a programmer and news reporter in Canada. My CV looks bananas.

I'm looking forward to a long, fruitful career now behind the mic, staying around the sport I love so much and the sport that changed my life for the better.