Joachim Sauer Quotes

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

If there's more than one person—including yourself—in a room, consider anything said to be on the record and a probable headline in the morning paper.

I have decided not to give interviews and not to hold conversations with journalists who deal with the political activity of my wife rather than my activity as university teacher and researcher.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

Actors should never give interviews.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

There will be no more blabbing secrets to the media.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

I scarcely talk to reporters at all.