Curiosity Quote by Bill McGowan

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees…

— Phyllis George

“Interviews seem like such artificial situations, everyone on their best behavior trying desperately to hide behind a professional facade. Did my face fit? I…

— E.L. James

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a…

— Michael Parkinson

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

— David Steinberg

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A reporter who makes actual money for asking question so dumb they are surreal will inquire, "How did you feel?”

— Stephen King

Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which…

— Michael Kay

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is…

— David Frost

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he…

— Rachel Perry

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview,…

— Craig Brown

“Curiosity fueled our determination to keep questioning.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude…

— Sarah Stillman