I certainly don't want to be part of a media that forces confessions from people who are not going to behave any… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I was a terrible reporter. The only advantage was I made all my mistakes in a place and at a time where… — 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
The first time I went to the cinema was with my father. He was a huge fan of Peter Ustinov, so we… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
There are those moments when you know that you are up against a tricky customer who is not being forthright with the… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
There's no point meeting somebody with a meat cleaver the moment they open their mouth - because they're going to clam up,… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
The only routine I have is going for a run and a swim with the dog in the morning, between 8am and… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
So often people read conspiracy into a thing when it's really a confluence of cock-ups and the wrong button being pressed at… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
