I once talked to a judge who said that he spent his life in court being skeptical of witnesses who couldn't give an account of incidents they claimed they had seen. Then one day he was in the street and an accident happened right in front of his eyes. He had a full view of everything that occurred, and afterwards he could not give any account of what he had seen. Good reporters feel the same sort of difficulties. Like scientists they have to slowly change their expectations of the world, and take into account the discrepancies between what they see and what they are expecting to see.

The Paris Review, Issue 168, Winter 2003, The Art of Theater No. 15