The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h. Peter Landesman Read Quote
When it came to ‘Concussion,’ I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower’s tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be. Peter Landesman Read Quote
What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people – the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Even the two novels I’ve written were based on true stories. It’s how I’m wired – real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed. Peter Landesman Read Quote
Parkland’ is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy. Peter Landesman Read Quote
I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy. Peter Landesman Read Quote
We’ve all seen ‘Network’ and ‘Wag the Dog,’ but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn’t operate that way. Well, it does – sometimes. Peter Landesman Read Quote
