It’s weird, I actually like doing interviews now.
My problem with interviews, one day I’ll think one thing, and the next day I’ll think the exact opposite.
They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you’re conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
In the most polarized and passionate, the most angry and aggressive news environment in recent memory, my job as a journalist requires me – often – to push back in live interviews against comments that are unfair, untrue, or leave me thinking, ‘Is this seriously happening right now?’
I have a theory that I’m always hungry when I do interviews, as I always talk about food.
I like in-person interviews, but I do a lot of interviews over the phone, and it’s so boring. The same questions over and over.
Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they’ve got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, ‘Read the other interviews!’
My interviews are very pointed. I’m an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I’ve learned there is nothing people won’t tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.
While it’s really hard to do, at the same time, I’m escaping my body, which I really want to do. I’m living someone else’s life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I’m experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don’t have in my physical life.
The interviews themselves last a couple of hours and are cut down, so you can take your time lulling someone into a false sense of security before you hit them with the really weird questions.
I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.
There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don’t have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.
Famous people I’ve interviewed – powerful people, brilliant people, people whom you look at and think, ‘Seriously, do you not have pores?’ – have turned to me after interviews and asked, ‘Was I okay? I hope I was okay.’
The music is super fun. I love writing the songs. I love performing, for the most part, and I love doing artwork, but I hate answering 100 emails a day and most interviews.
I’ve done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I’ve actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I’m not respectable, I’m going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.
I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I’ve learned I can’t do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That’s why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
I don’t mind talking about my professional career, but I hate interviews if I have to answer a stupid question about personal matters.
I’ve done thousands of interviews in my life, and it’s a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I’m navigating this world that I’m in.
Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving Paul Lazar negotiate a terrific deal for him, with cash up front.
I remember I was in my ninth grade, and I was smitten by Sushmita Sen, the way she carried herself, her interviews, and, of course, her movies.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
I’m a fairly unaffected human being. I’m easy to talk to, I hope. I’m not too bothered about the clothes I’m wearing. I’ve been misquoted in interviews as to appear earnest. Which I am not.
When we do interviews and we get asked the same questions over and over, I’m like, ‘I wish we’d get asked something different.’ But when we do, I have no idea. I’m not prepared. Because it’s hard to remember your own life!
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers – nor friends, either.
It’s nothing, really, for me to be able to say it’s overwhelming or anything. It’s just – you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you’re here, and that’s to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.
I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don’t know what it is to be a human being anymore.
I don’t do interviews under false pretenses.
Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They’re a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They’re a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, ‘A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.’
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don’t want to know about Al Pacino’s life.
The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they’re an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It’s tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can’t do that.
When I work out, I wear two in-the-ear hearing aids for comfort, and then I wear the behind-the-ears for my day-to-day non-physical activities, when I need maximum hearing and to communicate with people and do interviews!
I have had some great interviews and some not.
I like when I do interviews with an artist and they may not have liked an artist at first but after they see my interview they’ll like them better.
I hate giving interviews.
Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau.’
Everyone finds interviews nerve-wracking so try updating your interview outfit with some new accessories, such as a fabulous silk scarf, so you feel great and know that you look a million dollars, even if you’re feeling a little apprehensive.
Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn’t go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn’t expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn’t have Twitter.
Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day.
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O’Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
When you’re coming up in the business, there are so many people giving you advice and people prepping you for interviews: what to say, what not to say. When you don’t know the business, you kind of take all that on and say, ‘This is what I need to do, and I need to do what people tell me to do.’
I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.
To have the opportunity to be creative and clarify the nature of that creativity, there are definitely some long days, some 18-20 hour days with interviews or computer work, but I have a friend who is every bit as intelligent and creative as me who works at the mill.
It took me little more than two years to complete my film, ‘Woody Allen: A Documentary.’ I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid.
We didn’t want to do any more interviews. The more we talked, the worse things got.
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren’t well – known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.
I don’t believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That’s just not my style.
I’m a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.
