Quote:
"One can read again and again about death and hardship, but you can never prepare yourself for the reality of it all. After a time, however, I got hardened to the point that a group of refugees waiting for a helicopter airlift as their village burned behind them became for me a problem of focus and framing. Only at the end of the day do you perhaps allow things to reach you. You recall the face of a child or a small incident that gives you nightmares."
-- Beryl Fox

Source:
Rosenthal, Alan. "The Mills of the Gods: Vietnam." Interview with Beryl Fox. In The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Film Making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. (p. 230)