Probing Questions Quotes

We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.

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.

We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one.

Interviewers, even the ones that support the person they're interviewing, have an obligation to probe further and push back when a candidate says something dangerous.

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

I saw a psychiatrist when I was younger because I had ADHD, and I had some problems with authority, so I guess I can kind of relate to that in a way. I know what it's liked to be probed and to be asked questions where people are looking for a certain answer and are trying to pull something out of your answer.

If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor.