“When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.” WritingYearsWantedFunnyMediaHabitFitYears AgoResponseTraditionalInterviewsThoughtfulBlogsHeadlinesBlogging Author:Mark Cuban
“I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.” SaidGoneInterviews Author:Aubrey O'Day
“I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.” TryingInterestingAudienceImpossibleInterviewsMost InterestingAlways Trying Author:Scott Pelley
“The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of being able to interview the victim. You had to piece together the circumstances surrounding the crime from witnesses and other evidence. 'SVU' is much more immediate in that you can talk to the victim.” SometimesAbleTogetherDifferencesCasesPiecesCrimeColdCircumstancesEvidenceAdvantageVictimDecadesWitnessInterviewsCold Case Author:Danny Pino
“The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?” WritingHardSittingRoseClubsAssInterviewsChairsPencilsSomething BetterSharpeningTrimming Author:Jerry Pournelle
“I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.” PeopleHateI HateInterviewsPrivacy Author:Megan Fox
“I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.” IfsSaidRememberPurposeInterviewsLooking BackPosterity Author:Zachary Quinto
“I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.” PeopleHomeReadingMy FamilyLet MeDinnerInterviewsSigning Author:Kathy Reichs
“I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.” LooksFoundBitsKingsVariousAttractiveGirlfriendInterviewsLionsCartoonExesEx GirlfriendLion King Author:Eddie Redmayne
“Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.” IfsWritingBookReasonSeemsDoorsInterviewsRequestWriting A Book Author:James Rollins
“I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.” KnowsSometimesStoriesJobsHorrorBoringInterviewsGreat JobHorror StoriesAmerican Horror Story Author:Lily Rabe
“I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.” LastsMinutesCarInterviewsLast Minute Author:Martha Raddatz
“I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.” PeopleRealHonestInterviewsBeing Real Author:Octavia Spencer
“I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.” PeopleFeelsLittlesCausesGrewGrew UpYeahInterviewsDisturbing Author:Bob Saget
“In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.” LooksDifferentWarHandsShotsIncludingJournalistDamageInterviewsPotCombatAdsUnfairPettyDronesAfarSlick Author:Greta Van Susteren
“It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.” WayLyingStreetsHarderOne WayCandidatesInterviewsControlledAdsPolite Author:Greta Van Susteren
“I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.” JobsSleepWatchesSmartInterviewsGoing To SleepWatch MovieJob Interview Author:Jaden Smith
“I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.” WantedInterviews Author:Neil Strauss
“I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.” ThinkingMillionsMusicianBoringInterviewsAnthologyFamous Musician Author:Neil Strauss
“I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsMadeStuffInterestingHonestHonestyTruth IsInterviewsNot Honest Author:Neil Strauss
“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.” YearsReasonQuittingInterviewsI Quit Author:Bernie Taupin
“General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.” PeopleStatesAbilityDecisionUnitedUnited StatesVirtueStonesCirclesInterviewsAlliesAfghanistanRollingCommandersRolling StonesStrategist Author:Jim Talent
“I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.” ThinkingWholeFilmBitsInterviewsFrightenedReserved Author:Alicia Vikander
“Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.” WellsMy OwnDecidedInterviewsRequest Author:Eli Wallach
“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMadeCareEvilAliveMediaPerceptionMusic IsInterviewsTrickeryNecessary Evil Author:Jack White
“When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.” PeopleIfsAsksInterviewsOffenseAccused Author:Joseph Wambaugh
“I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.” ThinkingWayTurnsAsksAnswersPlayerHonestBoringBeing HonestJournalistInterviewsSay Anything Author:Shane Warne
“I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.” KindAsksLeadershipAskingStriveAsk MeInterviewsIntroducing Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.” KnowsWantLiteratureSubjectsInterviews Author:Kurt Loder
“Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.” MadeSexyVampireInterviewsVampirism Author:Joseph Morgan
“If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.” IfsWaySchoolJobsLawUsedAsksFindingsFirmInterviewsJob InterviewGlasgowLaw Firms Author:Denise Mina
“Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.” IfsKnowsMenHardFilmHateHe ManIntellectSensesDevotionInterviewsFuriousStanleyCraftsmanship Author:Tim Cahill
“Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.” WayPersonsLongCharacterTalkingWonderProduceTiredDespiteInterviewsRecallsSuperiorityAnecdotes Author:Gene Lees
“Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.” IfsWorldFirstsGuyInterviewsSweetest Author:Dave Grohl
“It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.” YearsWellsMayTwoBookAcceptingNew YorkReadyLike YouRejectionInterviewsThrownTwo YearsNew York TimesChampagne Author:George R. R. Martin
“I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.” PeopleWantKidsLove IsInterestingFrontsCamerasInterviewsReporters Author:Charlotte Arnold
“There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensStreetsInterviewsInsulting Author:Billy Eichner
“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.” ThinkingWorldWayGivingIdeasDoneOpportunityEnjoyGrowthThis WorldGive MeInterviewsFormatGauges Author:Ian MacKaye
“Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.” MenYearsBookDoneFunSingingInterviewsBooze Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.” ThinkingWorldShouldMayChildrenWaitingInterestingEducationPoliticianDoctorsAimTrainInterviewsSurgeryAnthologySomething InterestingStationaryAim Of Education Author:John Mortimer
“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'” PeopleWayWantLittlesGamesPayMediaIndustryStandardsConservativeRapLikesObjectivesFormerInterviewsCriticizeCakeSeniorSubjectiveWebsiteCottagesRacketKnucklesLiberal MediaHave Your Cake And Eat It Too Author:Matt Labash
“I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!” I CanWholeTalkingWeekQuietInterviewsAwkward Author:Katie Leung
“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, "My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.” ThinkingFirstsLeftAttitudeCareersOfficeUniversityDearBoardsInterviewsPrivate Sector Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.” HelpingEyeGirlPovertyWorryTaughtSorrowHollywoodBackgroundsCodeInterviewsBritainRaysScandalBlairSubtext Author:Peter York
“I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.” MenI CanActorsForeverFootballHe ManCommitmentStressBeerInterviewsPredictableOrdinariness Author:Peter York
“The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.” ArtTodayFormSufferingMiddleInterviewsDesperateSundayHereafterBrowsBroadsheet Author:Peter York
“If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.” IfsVoiceAcceptingFemaleAttractionMiserableInterviewsPossessedUnlimitedFadedBasementsDampPotencyConveying Author:Gilbert Harding
“You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.” ShouldMadeStuffMusicianRelyInterviewsEditorsFactual Author:Black Francis