Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Actors should never give interviews.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends.

For me the most important is on the pitch, I don't like too much speaking in the press. I will do the minimum. I will do it because I have to do it.

I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.