Quotes about interviews

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

— Lynn Barber

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

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

— Serge Daney

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

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

— Rock Hudson

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

— Publilius Syrus

My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

— James Thurber

It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

— John Updike

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

— Oscar Wilde