Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
I am really bad at actually interviewing people.
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.
When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.
I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.
Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.