Media Interaction Quotes

I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.

What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

You can never get your message across if you're always answering their [reporter's] questions.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.

I've dealt with a lot of media and I know the New York media different, for sure.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

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

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.