Discreet Observation Quotes

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.

Let the ambassador explore the expression of the countenance, the gestures and actions of the foreign king through the gestures and actions of his confidential advisers, and discover his designs among his servants.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.