Interview Quotes

• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Interview
  • Reporter
  • Edison

• I cannot believe that NSWRU don't want to interview me.

  

  Damir Dokic
  • Believe
  • Cannot
  • Interview

• If I do an interview with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Holocaust
  • Journalist
  • Interview

• I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.

  

  George Stroumboulopoulos
  • Questions
  • Plan
  • Interview

• At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Clark Kent
  • Stand-up comedian
  • Justin Trudeau

• I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

  

  Joseph Force Crater
  • Help
  • Interview
  • Old Days

• In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed.

  

  Anthony DeCurtis
  • Explanation
  • Interview
  • Soviet Car

• I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'

  

  Noga Alon
  • Radio
  • Interview
  • Prime

• It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"

  

  Eeva Kilpi
  • Creativity
  • Plant
  • Spice

• Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Think
  • Tongue
  • Lips

• The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • May
  • She
  • Beautiful

• The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Feeling
  • Interview

• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Information

• When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Interview
  • Difficulties
  • Sense Of Humor

• I can't live in a bubble and expect to come and work with Dior or go work on a movie and not have some kind of an evolution within myself and my own thought process and a passion about things or what's happening in the world. All of those things are the elements that make you who you are, and those are the things that sincerely come across in a photo or a commercial or in an interview. That's a constant thing for me.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Movie
  • Passion
  • Evolution

• I want to interview Alec Baldwin.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Want
  • Interview
  • Alec Baldwin

• The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • View
  • Idiot
  • Interview

• When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Interview
  • Offenses
  • Unprofessional

• If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

  

  George Stroumboulopoulos
  • Idea
  • Celebrity
  • Interview

• I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

  

  Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Interview
  • Stupid questions

• I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.

  

  Edwin McCain
  • Interview
  • Network
  • Radio shows

• I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze.

  

  Richard Petty
  • Much
  • Interview
  • Breeze

• … and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night.

  

  Eddie Mair
  • America
  • Night
  • Interview

• Why not interview those with opposing views separately and give each more than a minute or two to make their point without having to respond to another person's debating tactics? And why not encourage interviewers to intervene when blatant errors or falsehoods are offered as facts?

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Views
  • Interview
  • Tactics

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