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Leslie Cockburn [1952-0] American

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Leslie Corkill Redlich Cockburn is an American writer and filmmaker who has covered a wide variety of international stories in almost every part of the globe.

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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.		101
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.	War	102
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.		103
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.		104
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.		105
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.		106
I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.		107
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.		108
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.		109
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.		110
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.		111
I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.		112
It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.		113

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