Harris Faulkner Quotes

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

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

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'.

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

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

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

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

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

My private life is private.

I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

I started as a print reporter.

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?

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

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

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.