When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.
We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.
That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.
I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
When I sit down to do an interview, I try to be polite and answer the questions that I'm asked.
I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'
As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.
