Michael Cimino Quotes

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.

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

I love journalism.

As a journalist, the details always tell 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.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

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

Great questions make great reporting.

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

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

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?

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

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

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

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

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.