Journalism quotes

“You do not get to do this, they do not get to smack us just for asking questions!”
Cate Blanchett - Mary Mapes

“- Roger Clark: If the government wins and we're convicted, the Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
- Ben Bradlee: Well, if we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know it has already ceased to exist.”
Jesse Plemons - Roger Clark
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee

“- Peter Parker: Spider-Man wasn't trying to attack the city, he was trying to save it. That's slander.
- J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
J. K. Simmons - J. Jonah Jameson

“I thought my job was to tell the public the truth - the facts, pretty or not - and let the publishing of those facts make a difference in how people look at things. At themselves, at what they stand for. That's shame on me. This is the only thing I ever wanted to do. And for a while, a long while, it was an honor.”

Jeremy Renner - Gary Webb

“You wanna cover Brooklyn, then cover Brooklyn! But let me tell you something, you can't cover Brooklyn from a barstool in Manhattan.”
Roma Maffia - Carmen

“- Ice Cube: But I get it. The bigger the story, the bigger the check in your field of work. I shouldn't blame you, it's not your fault. What's your name? [extends his hand]
- CNN Journalist: Brian.
- Ice Cube: [retracts his hand] Eat a dick, Brian. Get the fuck out my house. Y'all done here.”

O'Shea Jackson Jr. - Ice Cube
Rob Brownstein - CNN Journalist

“Now he's at The New Republic Magazine, see what happens when greatness is demanded from you?”

Caroline Goodall - Mrs. Duke

“- Mike Smith: Hey, I never got to ask you. Why did you get into journalism?
- Dan Rather: Curiosity.
- Mike Smith: That's it?
- Dan Rather: That's everything. Why did you get into?
- Mike Smith: You.”
Christopher Grace - Mike Smith
Robert Redford - Dan Rather

“This seems to be the last chapter in the history of American involvement in Vietnam. It's also been the largest single movement of people in the history of America itself. Hilary Brown, ABC News, aboard the attack aircraft carrier, USS Hancock, in the South China Sea.”
Hilary Brown - Hilary Brown

“- Mary Mapes: How you're doing, Dan?
- Dan Rather: I'm stepping down as anchor.
- Mary Mapes: When?
- Dan Rather: After inauguration.”
Robert Redford - Dan Rather
Cate Blanchett - Mary Mapes

“Just remember that you're not just reading the news, you're narrating it. Everybody has to sell a little. You're selling them this idea of you, you know, you're sort of saying, trust me I'm, um, credible. So when you feel yourself just reading, stop! Start selling a little.”

William Hurt - Tom Grunick

“- Cosmo Interview Girl: Our cover story right now is about cunnilingus. What do you think about that?
- Sydney Prosser: I like it.”
Christy Scott Cashman - Cosmo Interview Girl
Amy Adams - Sydney Prosser

“- Marty Baron: Whether Mr Garabedian is a 'crank' or not, he says he has documents that prove that Cardinal knew.
- Ben Bradlee Jr.: As I understand that those documents are under seal.
- Marty Baron: Okay, but the fact remains a Boston priest abused 80 kids, we have a lawyer who says he can prove Law knew about it and we've written all of......” (continue)(continue reading)
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron
John Slattery - Ben Bradley, Jr.

“- Alice: What's your work?
- Dan: I'm sort of... journalist.
- Alice: What sort?
- Dan: I write obituaries.”
Natalie Portman - Alice
Jude Law - Dan

“- Pete Curtis: That's bullshit!
- Wally O'Sullivan: The worrying thing is, it's well-written bullshit, and it's right here in my paper... I must confess, Hamilton, that I probably would have infused it with a little more skepticism, but bitter resentment won't prevent me from admitting it was a good piece. Well done.”

Michael Murphy - Pete Curtis
Noel Ferrier - Wally O'Sullivan

“We need to focus on the institution, not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so that these guys wouldn't have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into parishes time and time again. Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top, down.”
Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron

“I don't have to listen to you! I'm looking at you, I'm looking and I can see a reporter who's about to tell me he has a hunch! Do you want an opinion about reporters who have hunches?”

James Woods - Alan Mann

“I record what people do and I find what moves them, what scares them and I write that down. That way they're the ones telling the story and you know what? Those kinds of pieces can win Pulitzer's too.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.”
George Miliotis Miller

“- Lou Bloom: I'm promoting you to executive Vice President of video news.
- Rick: What am I now?
- Lou Bloom: You're an assistant.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom
Riz Ahmed - Rick

“Here's a tough ethical one. Would you tell a source that you loved them? Just to get some information?”
Robert Katims - Martin Klein

“We want the drama, we've got to get the needles.”
Jesse Metcalfe - Chase

Look at that. All night long, people have been treating us like royalty. In London, the journalist's motto is, "Everybody hates us, and we don't care".
Simon Pegg - Sidney Young

“Hustler magazine depicts men and women posed together in a lewd and shameful manner. Hustler magazine depicts women and women posed in a lewd and shameful manner. Hustler magazine depicts Santa Claus posed in a lewd and shameful manner.”
James Carville - Simon Leis

“- Marion Sandusky: You made my wife cry when she reads the paper.
- Michael McDougal: At least she bought it, didn't she?”
Jason Alexander - Marion Sandusky
Randy Quaid - Michael McDougal