The main "technique" that I noticed being used was the author was very argumentative and blunt while conducting the interview. This lead to a very interesting, exciting, and even controversial interview in the end.
In this interview, I think that the format that the author organized it into was definitely a "writing technique" because if he had not organized in the way that it is now, I don't think it would have provided the same amount of drama and suspense as it does when reading it. The style that it is written in is that it is written out almost exactly as it was most likely said except for a few lines being bolded according to who is speaking at that time. This provided the reader with some extra drama when it was needed I think because you were not pausing throughout your reading experience in order to go back and read who is saying what, but at the same time you are also not "drifting" and getting lost in any extra writing about facts or comments. This format for an interview is clearly best for dramatic ones such as this one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/sep/11/greatinterviews
When he wrote about his interview that he conducted about Marlon Brando, the interviewer chose to use the writing technique of including all of the quotes within what seemed to be a solid narrative which included some dialogue of what was said at this visit.
The interviewer may have chosen to use this style of formatting the interview in order to possibly show how laid back and relaxed the interviewee and his style of life were. In the introduction the interviewer describes the environment in which the interviewee lived in and he described it as having tea bags and bamboo cluttering up his house which these items then lead to believe that the interviewee was a very calm and peaceful person which set up a background knowledge or image in the readers brain for as to how the interview may proceed.
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