Journalism quotes
127 journalism quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Liberty Stands Still
“You want me to use my influence as a journalist to debate the right to bear arms with you, because you've got a gun pointed at me?”
- From the movie: Spider-Man
- From the movie: The Bonfire of the Vanities
“This was my story. Sherman McCoy was my baby, my creation.”
- From the movie: Shattered Glass
“There's so many show offs in journalism, so many braggarts and jerks. They're always selling, always working the room, always trying to make themselves look hotter than they actually are. The good news is reporters like that make it easy to distinguish yourself, if you are even a little humble and a little self-effacing.”
- From the movie: Wrong Is Right
- From the movie: The Paper
“A clipboard and a confident wave will get you into any building in the world!”
- From the movie: Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- From the movie: Chances Are
- From the movie: The Insider
- Jeffrey Wigand: How did a radical journalist from Ramparts Magazine end up at CBS?
- Lowell Bergman: I still do the tough stories. "60 Minutes" reaches a lot of people. - From the movie: Superman
- From the movie: The Year of Living Dangerously
“- Pete Curtis: You really think Sukarno's going to let the commies have their own little private army?
- Guy Hamilton: That's what Aidit says.
- Pete Curtis: Aidit's lying.
- Guy Hamilton: Maybe.
- Pete Curtis: Then why report it?
- Guy Hamilton: Maybe he's not lying.” - From the movie: Shattered Glass
“Journalism is the art of capturing behavior and you have to know who you are writing for, you have to know what you're good at.”
- From the movie: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
“- Ben: I'm in advertising. I work mostly with alcoholic beverages and athletic equipment companies, and I'm trying to break into the jewellery market right now.
- Andie: Saving the world one keg party at a time?
- Ben: What about you?
- Andie: What about me?
- Ben: Have I seen your work?
- Andie: I work at Composure.
- Ben: Fastest growing...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: His Girl Friday
“- Walter Burns: You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering - it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley.
- Hildy Johnson: It's the other way around.” - From the movie: Shattered Glass
- From the movie: Up Close & Personal
“What we in the news business can never forget is that we are only as good as the stories we tell.”
- From the movie: The Quiet American
- From the movie: Ali
“- Muhammad Ali: Man, without me, you'd just be a mouth and a microphone.
- Howard Cosell: Without me, you'd just be a mouth.” - From the movie: The Killing Fields
- From the movie: Superman III
“- Perry White: Superman saves a man from drowning on 3rd Avenue this morning while you stand there watching the whole thing and you don't even bring me one picture.
- Jimmy Olsen: Chief, I didn't have my camera with me.
- Perry White: A photographer eats with his camera! A photographer sleeps with his camera!
- Lois Lane: I'm glad I'm a writer.” - From the movie: Enemy at the Gates
“Here, the men's only choice is between German bullets and ours. But there's another way. The way of courage. The way of love of the Motherland. We must publish the army newspaper again. We must tell magnificent stories, stories that extol sacrifice, bravery. We must make them believe in the victory. We must give them hope, pride, a desire to...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
“You can't do this, I'm English! And an award-winning journalist. Well, maybe not award-winning, but I have been to lots of award ceremonies.”
- From the movie: The Year of Living Dangerously
“- Billy Kwan: That's the real Jakarta. Scrounging for a few handfuls of rice to keep them alive another day. That's a story you journalists don't tell in your reports.
- Guy Hamilton: Well, nobody wants to hear it.
- Billy Kwan: Tell them anyway!” - From the movie: Barfly
“- Tully: Why did you send your stuff to us?
- Henry: Well, I liked the title of the mag. It boggled my scrotum.” - From the movie: The Siege
“I'm going to take your boy Samir downtown, I'm going to strap his ass to a polygraph machine and I'm going to ask him questions about you. Then I'm going to take those transcripts, I'm going to take them to a friend of mine at the New York Times who just loves to write stories about the link between the CIA and political horror shows.”
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