Godfather auditions interview
Coppola and Pacino talk about Coppola’s desire to have Pacino play the role of Michael in the Godfather even when the executives refused. Pacino:
I remember saying (to Coppola) I just don’t respond well to being around where I’m not wanted.
Vanessa Williams interview
On a special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show entitled A Mothers Day Special, Williams talks to guest host, Shriver, about her family and advice she has for her children.
Absolutely loving what you do and loving who you are
BBC ‘still innovative’
Responding to Greg Dyke’s comments that the iPlayer is losing ground, Highfield defends innovation at the BBC.
No one in the UK content market could innovate faster. The only thing that might stifle innovation would be the process of approving new services because that can take a long time. With BBC Trust approval framework for new services, we won’t always be able to be number one to market, but that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t or couldn’t be innovators.
He says the Company can help the transition to mobile:
The BBC can play this role of trusted guide, taking audiences through new mobile experiences and helping to build the market.
Mercury interview
Botha is interviewed for the San Jose newspaper about billion-dollar deals and how he got into tech. He says that before joining PayPal:
I’d no idea what venture capital was.
Steve Martin interview
Groening is interviewed by Steve Martin on a panel discussion. They talk about their news advertisement for Fox News and The Simpsons news parody that they were only allowed to do once.
So they said we could do it once but they said we couldn’t do it again and the reason now is that it confuses the viewers, they may think that it’s real news.
O Magazine interview
McFadden speaks to Winfrey in an interview for O Magazine and tells how she feels about living in the same house where her children were murdered.
This is where they were born. I can still see their smudgy handprints on the walls. The plants they planted are here. Stuart’s tree is out in the front yard. Stan painted the house. The few minutes it took somebody to come in and put bullets into them is not what my children are all about.
Spin cover
Manson is featured on the cover of Spin Magazine, with a interview inside the issue. During the interview Manson is questioned on his divorce.
But then I realized that what’s wrong about me is right. To play devil’s advocate – but that doesn’t really work, since I’m the devil – people would say that drugs and alcohol wrecked my marriage. But buyer beware. She said she had tolerated the lifestyle because she hoped I would change and threatened to leave if I didn’t. I was sleeping on the couch in my own home. I was no longer supposed to be a rock star. I was someone who had to be apologized for. I wasn’t prepared to be alone. I came out of this naked, a featherless bird. I needed to get my wings back by making this record.
Elle Magazine interview
Gere gives interview to Elle Magazine about the one thing he doesn’t want a woman to learn about him.
That I snore. It’s really bad. I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an under bite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.
Authors@Google interview
Livingston says she wrote Founders At Work as there was a lack of information about the early stages of a company.
I thought, the bankers and analysts at my [finance] company don’t really understand what happens at companies until they go public…the truth is, noone really knows what happens in the first few years of startups except the founders and the people who work there
She did 32 interviews over the course of two years:
I tried to collect this really interesting fund of experience for…people who are thinking of starting a startup, or want to go and work for one, or are just interested
Elle Magazine interview
Heder gives interview to Elle Magazine about what celebrity he fantasizes spending the rest of his life with.
I’ve always liked Kate Winslet. She’s pretty, smart, and talented. But I’d really have to be someone who could also bust a move on a dance floor and be able to kick butt.
Elle Magazine interview
Holloway gives interview to Elle about why he is different from his character Sawyer on Lost.
I’m unable to hurt people’s feelings like Sawyer is. Part of me wishes I could say everything I thought and get away with it, but being Southern raised, that’s hard.
Good Housekeeping interview
Winslet discusses her life, career, children, and being comfortable in her skin. On what she enjoys most about being a mother:
I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
O Magazine Interview
Kennedy, Jr. speaks about why he didn’t run for New York Attorney General:
Because I really didn’t want to be attorney general. I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I’ve always avoided politics because I didn’t want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children. But now America has changed so dramatically that I’m asking myself: What’s going to be left of this country? I’m spending time with my kids, but maybe my time would be spent just as well if I tried to save the country.
O Magazine interview
Kennedy Jr. speaks to Winfrey in an interview for O Magazine about if he has a fear of terrorist attacks in the United States.
I think the worst thing this White House has done is to use fear as a governing tool. No, I don’t fear for our country in terms of an attack. They’ve used the excuse that 9/11 suddenly put us in the most dangerous part of our history. That’s nonsense. When you and I were raised, there were 25,000 nuclear warheads pointed at America, and we faced absolute annihilation. That was a dangerous time. When George Washington fought the British and his troops didn’t have shoes, that was a dangerous time. And during the Civil War, if we had lost Gettysburg, the United States of America would have disappeared.
Superstar to superstar interview
Englund talks to Kane on WWE.com’s Superstar to Superstar series about horror films, working in masks and his obsession with fire.
I love fire. Fire is hypnotic. And you’ve had this experience, too. When you’re on a sound stage and you’re shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy. And you know, the stuntmen, those guys know how to count, but when you’re an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical. And I always forget to count. I’ve singed my eyebrows
Elle Magzine interview
Schreiber gives Elle Magazine an interview about how he deals with breakups.
I try to move on as quickly as possible. I’ve always hated pain, but I have this weird delayed effect. I’ll get into a huge brawl three years later and not know why.
Superstar to Superstar interview
Durance talks to Layla as part of WWE.com’s Superstar to Superstar series about acting, characters and Madonna.
She’s (Madonna) an independent woman who didn’t take crap from anyone. She went out there and did her thing. But, over the last few years, another woman who I think is unbelievable is Angelina Jolie. She doesn’t apologize for who she is. It’s take it or leave it, and she’s not going to change. I really admire that. They are both people who make their own decisions and stick to them, and I really find that attractive.
Wozniak interview
Livingston interviews Wozniak for Founders At Work about starting Apple. His advice for people considering starting a startup:
First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what you’re doing. Don’t mislead people. Know in your heart that you are a good person with good goals because that will carry over to your own self-confidence and your belief in your engineering abilities. Always seek excellence: make your product better than the average person would.
O Magazine interview
Rhimes speaks to Winfrey in an interview for O Magazine about watching herself on TV during an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
I catch 20 minutes here or there, but I find it hard to watch. I want the show to be everything we shoot. After an episode is edited, there are whole chunks you guys won’t get to see. I’m like, Oooh, that was such a good scene. But I like watching the other actors.
O Magazine Interview
Rhimes speaks about how she came up with the idea to create the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy:
My sisters and I would call each other up and talk about operations we’d seen on the Discovery Channel. There’s something fascinating about the medical world—you see things you’d never imagine, like the fact that doctors talk about their boyfriends or their day while they’re cutting somebody open. So when ABC asked me to write another pilot, the OR seemed like the natural setting.