9 Quotes by David Fanning

She has taken a line into it that is provocative and goes to the heart of what the case is about, which is race.

Our job as journalists is to ask tough questions of people in power and to be fair in those questions and fair in our reporting. We will continue to do that.

Perhaps critical mass will be reached this year and next Christmas Macs will see Apple computers being the most sought-after presents. Because people tend to do things only when their peers and early adopters have tested the waters, there could be an almighty switch in the works over the next couple of years.

Something happened when she began the quest that became Innocence Lost . She got all of those people out of jail and that led her to this journey into the justice system.

As with any artist with a massive range, you forget how multi-faceted it is until you are exposed to the whole of that range. It takes your breath away. How did one person encompass all those types of voice? What an amazing capacity the human spirit has to be able to survive and range so widely.

At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into the world, comes back with a story, and who then finds meaning in it, and intrigue; someone who tells you about something you never quite knew before, or in a way you hadn't quite thought about.

It was January 1983 when we launched 'Frontline' on PBS with 'An Unauthorized History of the NFL.' The program was anchored by Jessica Savitch. We wanted to get attention, and we got it.

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

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.