Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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Interview Conceptual
INTERVIEW CONCEPTUAL
One of his most senior advisers took me to one side and said: 'If there is a question I do not like, I will tell the president not to answer it.'
'I'm sorry, ' I said, 'that's not the way we do interviews at the BBC.'
The aide grimaced but reluctantly agreed not to intervene.
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC HARDtalk
the interview is conceptual map you'd better draw in a psychological awareness and with a think-good aesthetics.
(BBC interview with Myanmar president U THein Sein in sep,2012.
Some musings on journalism
On the scale of public aspiration,
‘journalist’ comes second bottom to ‘politician’
- in Britain; whereas in France, it
comes second top after ‘author’…
to be interested in everything, by this calling;
to be interested in everyone, by this calling;
now that’s a calling worth responding to:
to ‘interview’ by asking a first question;
to listen to the very end of answer
until in the silence after the last word,
the next question emerges in the mind; thus
to question so that enthusiasm’s touched;
and in the person who confronts you,
the glow of heart’s true love brings all the light of self
to make the room a timeless temple of humanity;
to have an interview end as such a blessing; and so,
as one exchange of heart returns to being two people,
switch off the recorder, close the notebook;
with glory-lit and humble, slightly moist eye.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.
quote by Harry Stack Sullivan
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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.
quote by Katie Couric
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A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
quote by Chuck Klosterman
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
quote by Floyd Abrams
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If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.
quote by Joseph Jackson
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One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
quote by Maria Menounos
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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.
quote by Chuck Klosterman
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.
Milan Kundera in Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer.
quote by Robin Leach
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The Interview That Is Life
The Interview That Is Life
By: Adam Jordan Rubenstein
September 2009
Life throws curve balls
And sends us through a tunneled maze
Days, on end
Practicing…
Everything and how we should say…
Portray…
Place our cards…
So diligently;
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What are you doing?
Why have you come?
And how do you plan to get there?
Questions…
Comments…
Concerns…
Just how does it concern…
You!
The basis of a question is to understand,
Knowledge is nothing with out appreciation.
Do you welcome it?
Or watch it, as it passes you by?
Overcome your struggles
Lash out at your fears
Show your remorse
Yet hold back the tears
Tell of your years
Past experiences through career
Adhere to all they have to say
As “they” know best
Nevertheless never stress
Not all will relies
Thus…
Is the interview that is life.
poem by Adam Rubenstein
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Mr. Big Toe Wants To Interview Suzaria
Suzaria is the princess that Mr. Big Toe knows,
she is living now right on the street Coconut Row.
Lexius the wizard takes her to all the fun places that are nice,
he buys her nice things without thinking twice.
Mr. Big Toe wants to interview her on his radio show,
but Suzaria is too busy filming videos on the go.
Maybe next time when she is in his town,
she might do an interview if Mr. Big Toe dresses up like a clown.
poem by Christina Sunrise
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Shocking but true - A newspaper Interview
One top newspaper
The job interview:
Manager: 'just take any pay and work'
20 years later
The job Interview
Manager 'just take any pay and work.'
The newspaper now struggling to remain relevant
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
quote by Daisy Fuentes
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The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
In the spirit of Rumi - 23
I asked My Beloved
How may I know the secret
of being a perfect Sufi,
insan al-kamil,
a perfect Friend of God?
My Beloved said
You will never in your life be sure;
and that is just how it should be;
that way, you will be safe in Me;
instead, seek always where My secret might be found:
as you walk, look closely at all of nature;
every flower, every tree, every lake, every cloud,
every bird, every animal;
look closely at them, to see
if they hold My secret;
as you walk down the street,
look into the eyes of each human being
to see if they know My secret in their heart;
listen to every sound and every word
in case My secret hides within them;
or in the scent of roses, or in the taste of food;
go to sleep with this question on your lips,
wake with this question in your mind;
and though you will never find the answer,
one day the question shall cease to be a question
and become the song which you have always known.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
quote by Jessica Savitch
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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
quote by Harvey Keitel
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Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
quote by Chris Kattan
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