19 Quotes by Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

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.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.