Tom Stoppard Quotes

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

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

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

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.

Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.

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

When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer.

I always do my interviews face to face.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.

I'm not a big fan of the interview. It's a lot of questions I don't have answers for, a lot of questions about the music industry.

I'm not a very good interview, usually.

It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'

Now, academics are not always the easiest people to talk to, and the scholarly papers aren't always the easiest papers to read, but frankly, psychology papers, especially papers and books on terrorism, are very easy to read, and journalists should be reading them.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.

I have listened to tapes of myself interviewing people and mostly I try to be better at directing the conversation.

'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community.

I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.

I'm the best interviewer in the whole format. Except for Howard Stern, I'd put myself against anybody. Because I ask human questions.

I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.

In terms of, like, interviews, I used to struggle a lot with interviews; I never knew what to say.