I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.
I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.
And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
I like to do an interview when the other person isn't expecting it. I find it's more spontaneous.
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
I am a demanding person to interview.
When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.