"Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing."
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"Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities."
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"I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity."
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"When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason."
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"I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!"
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"...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964"
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"I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!"
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"One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself."
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"Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares."
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"I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense."
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"I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran."
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"A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation."
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"John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity."
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"I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me."
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"A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview."
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"It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that."
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"An interview is like a minefield."
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"Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?"
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