Interview Outcome Quotes

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

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

I've had the most amazing interviews, and I've done interviews that were so bad, I was embarrassed to be interviewed. I've seen both sides of the coin.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

I'm frightened of interviews.

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

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.

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.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

I think the long interview has an important life.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.