#interview

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'. ↗

— Graham Norton

#basically #bit #bored #celebrities #get

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#asked #bad #cbs #cbs news #crazy

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. ↗

— Bob Saget

#because #been #cause #disturbing #either

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#articles #artist #bought #copy #did

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#anything #because #book #character #english

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. ↗

— Terry Gross

#content #fact #faulty #getting #guests

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#appropriate #deem #i #interviews #nothing

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.' ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#comprehensive #constantly #context #could #down

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#conversational #doing #friend #going #interview

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #end #going #hard #interview