"In documentary films, the most difficult thing to……" — Leslie Cockburn
"In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple."
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9 Quotes by Leslie Cockburn
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When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing…
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I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the…
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Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that…
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to…
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I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
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