Elvis Duran Quotes

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

I'm frightened of interviews.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I think the long interview has an important life.

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.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

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.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

I'm not a good interviewer.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

I have spent a long time being asked questions in interviews, so I've experienced it on the other side but I'm really not afraid to ask any question myself.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

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.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

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.

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.

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview.

I have interviewed face-to-face, sitting beside me, over 19,000 people.