All Leslie Cockburn Quotes
- When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture,… Assignment
- I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. Abc
- After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their… Adventure
- Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth… Been
- When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. Began
- In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. Achieve
- When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. Cut
- When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people. Diplomatic
- I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. Ability