Interviews Quotes - Page 4

• David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

  Rachel Perry

  Done, Bowie

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• I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

  Graham Kennedy

  Talking, Lunch, Upstairs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

  Roland Barthes

  Would Be, Trouble, Imagine

  "The Pleasure of the Text (Sentence)". Book by Roland Barthes, 1973.

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• 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.

  Gilbert Harding

  Voice, Female, Miserable

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• When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

  Morley Safer

  Widows, Alive, Ground Rules

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• Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

  Uwe Boll

  Sex, Ghouls, Vampire

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 29, 2004.

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• The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

  Ken Burns

  Way, Persons

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• I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Opportunity, Adolph Hitler, Turned Down

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• You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Literature, Grants

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• I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

  James Lipton

  Talking, Able, Way

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• I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

  Jenna Bush

  Political, Done, Firsts

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• I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

  Maximilian Schell

  Thinking, Views, Two

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• 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.

  Kurt Loder

  Literature, Want, Subjects

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• If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

  John Hurt

  Change, Years, 1960s

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  Lynn Barber

  Race, Biographies, Should

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• An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

  Diane Sawyer

  Six Months, May, Profile

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• My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

  Judith Krantz

  Problem

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• Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  Francesca Annis

  Changed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Death, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

  Alice James

  Women, Memorable, Doctors

  1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

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• As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

  James Ellroy

  Giving, Chance, Acclaim

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• I apologize for my terrible interview skills.

  Heath Ledger

  Apology, Skills, Apologizing

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• The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

  Erin Moran

  Age, Firsts

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• Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

  Tom Cole

  Phones, Use, Phone Calls

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• And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

  Liam Neeson

  Television, Littles, Film

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