Martin Bashir Quotes

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Investigative reporting is not a way to make friends.

He [Robert F. Kennedy] is always on the lookout for a 'snow job,' impatient with evasion and imprecision, and relentless in his determination to get at the truth.

If I wasn't a writer/director, I would be an investigative journalist. There's something about being an undercover journalist. I mean, that's freakin' cool!

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

Being a journalist always makes you a quick study of wherever you're at. You're out all the time and seeing places that normally you wouldn't get to see. It gives you an unusual level of insight into any place.

I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.