Interviewing Quotes

I remember watching the Sex Pistols on TV when I came home from school - I think it was Johnny Rotten and Siouxsie Sioux from the Banshees - and they started swearing and the guy interviewing them got fired for provoking them. It was a wonderful time. It was like saying, `Ugly is beautiful, everything you taught us is wrong.`

(On interviewing) I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn`t.

Rock journalism is people who can`t write interviewing people who can`t talk for people who can`t read.

I recently saw a TV program in which a young, radical journalist was interviewing Ice-T at his home. And the guy asked, "What do you got in the record collection, Ice?" And lo and behold, all my albums were there. The guy said, "Aw, come on, man, what is this bullshit?" And Ice-T jumped on him and said, `Don`t mess with Phil, man. Don`t you fucking mess with my Phil." What can I say? I was flattered that the guy even knew I existed.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We`re playing too many women right now, we can`t play your record.

We made the assumption that the majority of our agents were still using the yellow pad approach to interviewing clients and gathering data. We did not want to trip over our data internally and thought if we could connect our existing software, utilize Web-enabled technology and compile it with the ability of office data entry we could automate workflow for agents in the field.

We`re still in the process of hiring people from that job fair. We have been interviewing and conducting sessions and will continue to do so.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I`m using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I`ve visited over 90 countries thus far.

When you`re interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what`s the best way to get the information from that person.

I spent one frenzied day interviewing producers, and ended up choosing Universal and Larger Than Life productions. It all happened in two days.

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like `Who are you?` or `What do you do?` you learn the most.

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

The most challenging aspect of it is not interviewing the people, but getting the right people at the right time to be interviewed.

A friend of mine asked me to open a sports bar in London, and the media were there. This fella started interviewing me, thinking I was Sean Bean.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don`t want to get involved in this.

in the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journalist interviewing involved participant: the reality was one pea in the pod interviewing a fellow pea.

Interviewing him was very strange.

One answer is that suggestive interviewing or other suggestive influences helped to create false beliefs or memories,

Steven would learn far more from sitting in a tea house or going to art galleries than someone interviewing the prime minister.