If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.
I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.
The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.
People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.
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