Katherine Kelly Quotes

The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

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

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

I'm doing real journalism.

I just don't understand why people decide to be journalists if they're not willing to investigate hard-hitting news stories.

Journalism is not writing.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Great questions make great reporting.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.