There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.
I remember doing 'The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy,' and I'd been reporting that story for a long time; I had a lot of good facts, but I had no story. I didn't know what the story was.
I'm a New York story.
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.
I do not make stories up, full stop.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.