Robert Gottlieb Quotes

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I'm not dogmatic.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Don't denounce, just state the facts.

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.