“For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.” DoneFallCareersDrunkInterviewsFalling Down Author:Moby
“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsIdeasWantedBehindsFictionEffectsExampleYears AgoWinterVariousMemoirInterviewsProseVolumeJournalAutobiographyEssaysFragmentsNon FictionLiterary WorksWriting Essays Author:Paul Auster
“I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?” TryingYearsSaidNew YorkMetsDirectorsYears AgoTheaterMovedDistanceExtraordinaryEverydayMythAdmireParisInterviewsCapturePeterAmazedBrooksCloseness Author:Paul Auster
“One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'” SaidI CanPlayKidsWantedFoundFeltFiguresGaySorryMagazinesJournalistInterviewsOne TimeHalfwayGay MarriagePublic FiguresFundraiser Author:Moby
“I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.” WantPlayWantedBallsInterviewsReportersBothered Author:Moses Malone
“I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.” WantToo MuchRocksMonthsCoupleSceneBandHeavyDecadesInterviewsMetalsCokeMetal Band Author:Sylvie Simmons
“The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.” CharacterDifferencesFictionBrokenLegsJournalismInterviewsTapeDisguise Author:Sylvie Simmons
“Sometimes I try to figure out why I always push things to talk about the really dark stuff in interviews, and I just think it's healing - for the listener, and for the guest.” ThinkingTryingSometimesStuffDarkHealingFiguresInterviewsGuestsListeners Author:Alison Rosen
“I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.” WayWantFeelsI CanMomentsCryMovedHandleInterviewsAffected Author:Alison Rosen
“Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.” SeemsThreeActorsGivenMonthsTricksFatsCardsInterviewsSkinnyThree MonthsCard Tricks Author:Sam Riley
“A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.” MenChoicesCan DoPayAttentionMinutesTelevisionHairBedPay AttentionInterviewsMakeupClothingsJewelry Author:Michele Bachmann
“When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.” IfsFirstsSaidIdeasDifferentStoriesSchoolBitsHalfClassPagesSentencesStuckMagazinesInterviewsEditorsGraduatesPublishingSubmissionParagraphGraduate School Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.” KnowsMeanBlackNaturalWhiteChildhoodComfortConnectionsInterviewsTreatmentRefugeeAdoptingPsychiatric Author:Kola Boof
“The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.” MenPersonsHappensSawsMetsPhonesInterviewsAdamRumorProfileBarbersHigh ProfilePhoto Of Me Author:Kola Boof
“I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.” GivingHas BeensFansInterviewsSupportive Author:Jake T. Austin
“I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?” PeopleThinkingPastUsedSoundChallengesPowerfulTeamStageMastersBeatsPressesInterviewsRoutineBitesReportersConferencesEvasionPress ConferencesSound BitesDaily Challenges Author:Sarah Stillman
“Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?” PeopleChildrenSometimesChallengesEventsTerribleTenLosingMurderDepthListsInterviewsBizarreSexuallyTerrible Events Author:Sarah Stillman
“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.” NeedsYearsWarStoriesTodayMillionsLaughingFrontsStudentsThousandResearchOrdinaryMy FriendsYears AgoHistoricalAvailableInterviewsIranOne TimeThousand YearsLive For TodayOrdinary LifeHistorical Research Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.” PeopleIfsSaidWantedClassWifeUnderstoodTablesMy WifeBarsInterviewsNecksClimbsPensThey SaidWorkshops Author:Tod Goldberg
“I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.” IfsTryingLooksAsksForgetMirrorsAsk MeInterviewsRearview Mirror Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying as much as I can to delete all of that research in a later draft so that all the reader cares about is the characters.” TryingI CanCharacterCareReaderResearchInterviewsArchives Author:Molly Antopol
“I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it.” WholeFilmActingRolesModelsWhole LifeInterviewsRole ModelsMy SisterNeatThirteen Author:Elle Fanning
“I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.” PeopleGivingMeanBookCommunityNicePoetSpreadGenerousInterviewsNice People Author:Victoria Chang
“In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump`s behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.” ChildrenTrumpBehaviorRadioInterviewsThrowingCruzTaunting Author:Chris Hayes
“I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.” PeopleWritingSchoolNewspapersInterviewsReportsColumns Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDoneSpeakLanguageAbilityHeardTelevisionObsessedInterviewsAutisticForeign Language Author:Jon Gnarr
“If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.” IfsCoursesViewsExampleContraryInterviews Author:Adam Schiff
“Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.” IfsWantKindMemoirEnjoymentInterviewsBiographiesHook Author:Brad Listi
“I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job. All of the interviews that we've published are with people who really interest me.” PeopleJobsInterestInterviewsReally GreatGreat JobInterviewers Author:Lorin Stein
“I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."” PeopleThinkingBeautifulSongInterviewsReally BeautifulSad ThingsReally SadBeautiful Love Author:Lauren Mayberry
“I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not, and I've certainly had interviews with people in this radio show I've done that swear they've seen things or have had bizarre experiences with creatures, and so I think they're telling the truth.” PeopleIfsThinkingI CanDoneShowsLyingReaderCreaturesRadioInterviewsTelling The TruthSwearBizarre Author:Rhys Darby
“Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.” SeemsTermAspectInterviewsReportersStarks Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are.” PeopleHas BeensSaidCoursesGivenIssuesTroubleElectionIraqInterviewsAccountabilityComplaintsRiceEndorsementsReelectionDebacles Author:Seymour Hersh
“The transitions will be tough because of the nature of a triathlon, you have to get changed and dry off or whatever. But this is going to be even harder because I have to do all that, then speak on the radio, do an interview with local telly, do some press and some interviews.” SpeakChangedToughHarderPressesRadioLocalsInterviewsDryTransitionTriathlon Author:Greg James
“The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.” PeopleWorldSaidWantedForgetTaughtInterviews Author:Fetty Wap
“But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.” ThinkingTrumpToughIronyInterviewsTouchedSenatorsIsis Author:Ted Koppel
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.” PeopleSaidCountryDreamHouseSpeakSocialJusticeSilenceCasesSeeingExampleDirectorsNewsSocial JusticeSilentMeritAgencyOfficialsInterviewsOnlineScarePublishingPublishersGallerySpeaks OutComplacentFree CountryOutreachPublishing House Author:Leila Fadel
“One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.” PeopleKnowsKidsHouseWalksMorningOne ThingFansKeysPhonesBunchAppealsInterviewsRemarkableFactoriesEvery MorningWarhol Author:Bob Colacello
“I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.” YearsArtLeftFeltTakenFiveDirectorsYears AgoTownsPhotographPhonesMagazinesInterviewsFive YearsKeep GoingBobGreat ArtColumnsWarholArt Director Author:Bob Colacello
“I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.” SometimesActorsResponsibilityToo MuchInterviewsContribution Author:William Mapother
“I do think questions have been raised and questions have to be answered.And there is no way to predict what comes in the door of that White House from day to day that can pose a threat to the United States or one of our friends and allies, and I think this is a big part of the job interview that we are all conducting with the voters here.” ThinkingWayHas BeensStatesBigsJobsHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesDoorsThreatRaisedInterviewsWhite HouseVotersAlliesDay To DayConductingJob Interview Author:Hillary Clinton
“I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity.” WellsExtrasInterviewsPublicity Author:Ice Cube
“You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.” PeopleKnowsStillsFactsTodayGuyTermTalkingFansBasketballInterviewsShyShynessShy Guy Author:Magic Johnson
“I have to say that Dave's Grohl amazing too. You see all these interviews with him and he seems like the coolest and nicest guy on camera, but he really is when he's off too! I was fortunate enough to know him before he was a big rock star when I put out his very first band's album.” KnowsFirstsEnoughBigsSeemsGuyStarsRocksBandCamerasAlbumsFortunateInterviewsRock StarDave Author:Reed Mullin
“I did apply to get a job, many times, but no one ever hired me. I think my hyperactive nature didn't score me any points, and I remember when I went for interviews, I would ask all the questions - this probably confused the people who were hiring.” PeopleThinkingJobsRememberAsksConfusedInterviewsScoreRemember WhenHiring Author:Ronnie Apteker
“One of the great weaknesses of journalists is they interview people and they think that's important. They think that they are going to show them their true hand. But more to the point, they're trapped.” PeopleThinkingImportantShowsHandsWeaknessJournalistInterviewsTrapped Author:George Friedman
“Donald Trump claims - he did interview after the debate where he said, well, gosh, you can't find Americans to do these jobs to be waiters or waitresses or bellhops.What ridiculous nonsense. "The New York Times" reported roughly 300 Americans applied for those jobs. He only hired 17. Instead, he brought in foreign workers, because they're captive workers, because you can pay them less because they can't leave.” WellsSaidJobsPayNew YorkTrumpClaimsWorkersDebateRidiculousInterviewsNonsenseNew York TimesCaptivesWaiterWaitress Author:Ted Cruz
“I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.” ThinkingRealFeelingsJobsRememberCollegeExcitingPaidBunchMagazinesInterviewsWowReal Jobs Author:Jodie Foster
“I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.” PeopleIfsWantLooksSaidEyeTakenInfluencePeriodsDown AndInterviewsLook UpJailCommunistLooking Down Author:Judy Woodruff
“I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.” WritingSaidSawsInterviews Author:Travis Morrison