Harrison Ford Quotes

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

I always do my interviews face to face.

Genius, particularly creative genius, is less about raw intelligence and more about elevated vision.