I decided to look through some more articles from Rolling Stone magazine because they are famous for having great interview pieces. As I read through a few of them, I started to notice a pattern. None of the interviewers were asking questions such as, "where did you grow up?" or, "what did you study in college?". The questions they were asking were more like, (for example, in the Tim Burton interview) "Do you remember what you dream about?". It didn't seem like they were trying to get to know the interviewee, but they were trying to understand how they thought. Understanding how the subject thinks can probably give you more information about them as a person than most ice-breaker type questions, but I just found this interesting.
Also, I noticed that throughout the interview, even when it was edited, it never sounded like anything was scripted. All of the interviews I have read in the past seemed like the subject probably knew the questions they were going to be asked far ahead of time, sometimes it even seemed like somebody told them how to answer certain questions. All of the answers given in any of the interviews I read just now seemed really honest, as if the interviewee was really thinking about what to say next and were just having a friendly conversation with the interviewer.
One last thing that I noticed and liked a lot was that nothing seemed overly edited. I'm sure that there were probably several days worth of work done just in editing the interview alone, but none of the interviews read like they had been seriously edited. It seemed like the interviewer had just had a conversation with somebody, wrote it down on paper and turned it in. This was really refreshing because you can feel the interviewee's emotions that way. You can tell if they are shy, or if they are overly opinionated etc. So many of the interviews I have read in the past seemed so cold and dry that this form of writing was really refreshing.
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