Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
We're not robots. There isn't a perfect formula for an interview and there are days when you bring too much of you… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I have to listen to the midnight news and I have to see if any of my interview lines have been picked… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
When I interviewed a bloke wearing a balaclava on Newsnight. He refused to remove it and halfway through our interview he forgot… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
If you interrupt somebody too early, if you miss it and don't interrupt at all - that's the difference between a good… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
It is the little things that throw me - the wrong pen, the wrong font. An interview done standing up is a disaster. I… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I have heard somewhere an argument that if the Industrial Revolution - economic development - had started in Africa rather than Europe, then sun… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up, you're going… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray into something… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I think you go into a debate trying to be fair minded and trying to be balanced but occasionally there will be a sense… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I don't think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It's about why something won't work, which… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I think increasingly I really come to appreciate the people, the politicians, the interviewees, of any stripe and size who are able to answer… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I moved from current affairs to daily news over the Asia crisis of 1998 - mainly because the news agenda demanded I become economically literate. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I'm not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful - the debate will always garner that kind of traction because… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
I am always impressed by interviewers who can do the whole thing without notes. I can't. I need reminders on my knee. Dates, first… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share
