James L. Brooks Quotes

I love journalism.

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

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

Journalism is not writing.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

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

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

All the news that fits we print.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.

Great questions make great reporting.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

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?