Cinema Quote by Mark Boal

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

— David Frum

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order…

— Lowell Bergman

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape…

— Matthew Heineman

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

— Tom Brokaw

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie…

— Jose Padilha

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a…

— Cosima Spender

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one.…

— Meg Greenfield

When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so…

— Rithy Panh

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh