Herald Quotes

I was in New York shooting Law & Order" (1990) and the script came along, and I completely connected to it. From the first page, when he says, `Ever since I was eight years old, I knew what I wanted to be.` When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a chef or an actor. I used to cook all the time. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life." - to The Boston Herald on getting the script for "Kitchen Confidential" (2005) (11/05)

I`m as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with _Jurassic Park (1993)). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of the Worlds (2005) is that today, anything I can imagine, I can realize on film. Then, when my mechanical shark was being repaired and I had to shoot something, I had to make the water scary. I relied on the audience`s imagination, aided by where I put the camera. Today, it would be a digital shark. It would cost a hell of a lot more, but never break down. As a result, I probably would have used it four times as much, which would have made the film four times less scary. Jaws is scary because of what you don`t see, not because of what you do. We need to bring the audience back into partnership with storytelling.

(Tensions between Mark Scott and the Herald`s newly arrived chief operating officer Brian Evans spilled over recently when Scott reportedly warned Evans that a particular proposal would alienate AB readers.) I`m not so much concerned about them, ... I prefer The Daily Telegraph readers.

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

I don`t think there`s any question that for a brief shining moment, the Post-Herald was the most important newspaper in the city and perhaps the state, because people had to pay attention to it.

Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.