If you're running short on time, wait for your interviewee to finish a sentence or idea before interrupting.
The problem though is that it's always on your terms, your interviewee is stuck on a chair in front of you; they can't escape, they can't move.
"I knew that something beyond the beyond was going on," one interviewee says, echoing the metaphysical beliefs of many circle fans.
Make sure to include background information on your study site, why your interviewees are a good sample, and what makes your problem pressing to give your audience a panoramic view of the issue.
Then again, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em – Krishnan, perhaps you could lead the way by walking out on your next snotty, difficult interviewee?
Here's how it works: you suggest a story to be investigated on the GFM website, and donate personally or together with others until you have the necessary funds to effectively have the company find and hire a journalist for you to and I'm quoting from the website here—"go to briefings, press conferences, request interviews or door stop reluctant interviewees on your behalf".
Be flexible - Don't rely completely on your scripted questions, if the interviewee says something of interest you may need to pursue a different line of questioning.
"Clothes are your wings," one interviewee observes early on in Fresh Dressed, Sacha Jenkins's feature doc on the rise of hip hop and "urban" fashion.
This banker shares many of the interviewee's views on banking as a meritocracy: "Insiders on your blog who are so negative about the sector … It's not very kind to say, but they just didn't make it".
But since no one is on the interviewees' podium during Annaleigh Ashford's win for her featured You Can't Take It With You role, she does get nice response from this gang for her cute on-screen chat.
