John Campbell

"I have probably suffered all my life with an enormous desire to please people and to do the right thing and to be the right person, but the problem is also that I have always been attracted to rogues and rascals." John Campbell

John Oliver

"Often in these pieces, the people who you think come across the worst are the ones that call up the next day and say, 'Can I have 20 copies of that on DVD for my friends?' 'You can if you really want...'" John Oliver

Hal Hartley

"Never underestimate the weirdness of being young and having people writing about you everywhere, whether they're saying you're a smart guy or an asshole. And I had plenty of both." Hal Hartley

Joan Didion

"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen." Joan Didion

Allen Ginsberg

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Allen Ginsberg

John Safran

"I requested an interview. And today received a rejection letter from the jailed murderer who said my work was too ethically suspect for him." John Safran

Ira Glass



"It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre." Ira Glass

Louis Theroux

"I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. It's not me. I think what I'm good at is getting to know people, and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks." Louis Theroux