When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

- Annie Leibovitz

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

- Alain Resnais

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

- Angus King

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

- Baltasar Gracian

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

- Charles Kuralt

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

- Charles McCarry

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

- David Rakoff

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

- Frank Rich

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

- Jessica Savitch

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

- Jack Adams

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

- Martin Short

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

- Neil Sheehan