Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily pleasant but are real – a criminal, a murderer, a sadist, a rapist;...

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

I don’t really like doing interviews.

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve...

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I’m just bad at that. I just close down.

I can’t drop it. It’s how I’m drawn.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

Memories, like everything else, are momentary.

Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!

Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!

Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but...

Q: Why do you blog?A: Partly to make Butterflies and Wheels more frequently updated and more interactive (as well as that bit more interesting, I hope), but also because I think the world des-perately needs...

If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?

I go on giving interviews because I’ve been brought up to support the projects I’m involved in. When you’ve enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

Often times it isn’t the quality of your candidates, it’s the quality of your interview.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.

Before job interviews, I think: What color tie best represents me as a person this company would be interested in?

When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: ‘Does the candidate get paid?

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I’m explaining my songs I shouldn’t be so direct about who they’re about.

Democracy; Everyone’s opinion is required! Autocracy; Someone’s opinion is the best! Christocracy; What Christ said is FINAL!

Watch a man–say, a politician–being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstration of what both he and his interrogators learned in school: all questions have answers, and it is a good thing to...

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Actors should never give interviews.

mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a...

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as ‘Abu Nidal’ (‘father of struggle’), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat’s main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when...

There is absolutely no single aspect of one’s personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not...

He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.

Buscar la verdad es la mayor virtud y es lo que hace que un drama sea interesante. No me interesa contar historias con perfume de rosas en las que todo va bien

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.