Mike Colter Quotes

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

To be objective you don't have to be an adversary. You don't have to be a bulldog tearing down everything. To make the system of checks and balances and separation of powers work, you don't have to be on their ass all the time.

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.

I don't take anything personal.

As a pundit, it's important to tell the viewer something they might not know, be unbiased and not sit on the fence.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.