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" After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure. "
Live
Experience
Adventure
" I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. "
War
First
News
" I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist. "
Andrew
Journalist
Great
" In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. "
Difficult
Documentary
Simple
" I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature. "
Budget
Camera
College
" I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. "
Greatest
Think
Ability
" It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street. "
World
Street
Very
" Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for. "
Me
Light
Life
" When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. "
London
News
School
" When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people. "
London
Go
Pole
" When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. "
Facts
Wilderness
War
" When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. "
Percent
Away
Journalism
" When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations. "
You
Humanity
See
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