It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other.

When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.

I can't run for as many ice cream breaks as I used to when I watched for pure enjoyment.

In a consumer society people wallow in things fascinating enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with being excluded is humiliating.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.

I have absolutely no preference on TV or stage. Every job I take or that I audition for all comes down to the quality of the script.

You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'