Quotes About Interviews

It's nice being able to speak for myself. Every interview I did for so many years and every time I was in front of the camera, pre-Twitter, there was no way for me to speak for myself. Every interview started with, 'What was it like to work for this man?'

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Reporters also tend to love trials. It may be that we are transfixed by a process in which the person being asked a question actually has to answer it. He cannot say he would rather not comment. He cannot tell an anecdote on a different subject. He has to answer the question—under oath that he is telling the truth.

I think Jonathan Ross is brilliant.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.

Every interview I've done since I've turned 40, the journalist will say, 'So, isn't it amazing? Your career should be over, but you're still working. Why do you think you have found a career at a time when a lot of women are slowing down?'

I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.