Michel Gondry Quotes

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

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

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.

As for being an objective journalist? That's easy. I want what everyone else wants: the truth.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

The truth does not need to be defended.

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.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

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.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

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.

When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.