“First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure.”

Sachin is cricket’s God.

Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact – to use Walt Whitman’s definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it’s TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.