Kevin Macdonald Quotes

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

As a journalist, you're always worried, 'Did I get the full story?'

I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don't work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.

Great questions make great reporting.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

I started as a print reporter.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.

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

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

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

Documentary people have to know that, particularly nowadays, they have to be on a mission. And part of the mission is to - is to be like good journalists: search for the truth, have an open mind, listen to as much as you can of different sides of things.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

Journalists like to talk and write and produce, but the most important part of that process is learning how to listen. And that's what makes you a good journalist.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.