I used to be an actor, I used to be a journalist and I used to be a publicist. I know how all these people think.
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.
I think every journalist understands when they are the beneficiary of hot information that, yes, they have a scoop, but they're also being used. Part of your responsibility as a journalist is to tell the story of why that information is coming to you, consistent with the ground rules of your sourcing.
The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.
My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.
I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.