For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.
I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.
Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.
My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.
I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.
Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat.
Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
Very few interviews are a conversation. It's usually a question and I have to answer for two minutes. By the end of the day, I kind of feel gross. It's like you go to dinner with a friend and then you get home and you're like: "Ugh, I dominated that conversation too much. I wish I let them talk more." That's how it feels for me every day I do press.
When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it really gives me a headache.
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.
I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.
Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.
I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense.
Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.
Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
