Human Interest Stories Quotes

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

It's wonderful to do these great blockbusters and bigger pictures, but my heart is always with true stories.

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I know he offered to not be a part of the broadcast - he wasn't on the air. We'd all miss something. I think the [brother situation] adds the human element.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.

I like human-interest movies that are light-hearted.

At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.