Regina Hall Quotes

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I'm a journalism junkie.

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.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

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

Journalism is not writing.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.

When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.

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

I love journalism.