Juliette Binoche Quotes

What I do for a living is ask questions.

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

Great questions make great reporting.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin' cool!

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

I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.

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