Barry Levinson Quotes

Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

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

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

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

I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.

I don't think any of the journalists in 'Broadchurch' are villainous. I think they're all trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances.

I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.

'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.

The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

Journalism is not writing.

I don't really think of 'Frontline' as a strictly public affairs series; I think of it as a work of journalism that is constantly reinventing itself.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.