When I was the age of these guys here that are in the film, I was always complaining about the paper. I was complaining about the editor, I was complaining about me, and why wasn’t I getting more assignments and doing this and that. It is the nature of journalists to complain, and the city room of a newspaper is really a therapy session. One of the greatest things about being a journalist and being young is you have all these like-minded people of a similar age that share your frustrations. Because we all are in a way idealistic, and journalism, while it is the most idealistic of professions, always falls short, as anything human falls short.
— Gay Talese in Vanity Fair
