According to the writer, an interview helps us in finding out the hidden talent of a person. It brings to us the truth about people and events. It is a supremely useful medium of communication. It gives us the most vivid impressions of our contemporaries. In everyday practice, an interview is an art and varies in its functions, methods and merits. We come to know about a celebrity by asking him questions. We must not forget that an interviewer holds a position of great power and confidence.

Most of the celebrity writers despise being interviewed since it is an “unwarranted intrusion” into their lives. They feel that an interview diminishes them in one way or the other. Rudyard Kipling was quite scared of it. He called it to be immortal and a crime and an assault on his person. H.G. Wells referred it as an ordeal and compares it like “thumb prints on his windpipe.”

There are many sects with orthodox people who are averse to the idea of being photographed. They believe that if someone takes a photographic picture of somebody, he is stealing that person’s soul. He can command that person the way he desires. They think that in this process they lose a part of themselves.

Celebrities often feel that they have been made the beast of prey through interviews. Saul Bellow was interviewed on many occasions but he always felt uneasiness. Once he described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe. He considered it as an assult on his person. It was because that the interviewer created too much tension and pressure to feel suffocated. He felt as if he had put his thumbprints on his windpipe.