Tim Hetherington Quotes

#1. I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Tim Hetherington

#2. The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Mark Twain

#3. I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

Tim Hetherington

#4. I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.

Tim Hetherington

#5. It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tim Hetherington

#6. Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness.

Rumi

#8. And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

Nicole Krauss

#9. The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

Tim Hetherington

#10. It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Tim Hetherington

#11. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Tim Hetherington

#12. I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

Tim Hetherington

#13. Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

Tim Hetherington

#14. The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Tim Hetherington

#15. As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

Tim Hetherington

#16. Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Mark Millar

#17. We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

Tim Hetherington

#18. As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.

Channing Tatum

#19. Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.

Tim Hetherington

#20. When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register of All Wizards and Warlocks of the South Kingdom and of the North Kingdom from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time.

John Bellairs

#21. You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

Tim Hetherington

#22. I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

Tim Hetherington

#23. As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

William Wordsworth

#24. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Tim Hetherington

#25. Crying does nothing but water the pain and allow it to grow.

C.C. Hunter

#26. The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Tim Hetherington