Interview Refusal Quotes

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

If you look at my career and you look at the span of my work and the things I have done, as far as to garner fame, you'll see that I have turned down more interviews than I do. Or I turn down more things than I do.

If they are not positive about the run, I won't talk to them. I'm not here to play games with the media.

'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

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

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

I never talk to tabloids.

People come to me to say I don't sell; Brazilian media say I don't give interviews. Nobody is obligated to do anything.

There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

I don't do media training. I don't do that.

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

I rarely give interviews. I am against doing television interviews or chatting on the Net, even to promote my films. This is my personal decision, and it is not to hurt or embarrass anybody.

If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.