Adam Curtis Quotes

One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

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

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

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

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.

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

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Profiles aren't journalism.

In a world where we are all so much more interconnected, the ability to read the connections, and to connect the dots, is the real value added provided by a journalist.

There is a permanent war between journalists and the political classes.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

I'm a journalism junkie.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.