The man who is of neither party, is not—cannot be, of any consequence.
I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
I like to think of myself as an observer.
Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.
The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.
As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.
You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.
When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.
