Marshall Curry Quotes

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

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 like doing interviews. I really do.

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.

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

I'm not a good interviewer.

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.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

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

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

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

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

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

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.

The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they make you sound like an idiot, too. They ask you stupid questions, and they bring you down to their level. It's tempting to not ever want to talk to anybody, but you can't do that.

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

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

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

I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.