Mark Kozelek Quotes

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

I can generate attention quickly.

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.

I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around.

One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

I'm curious to see what kind of distribution it's going to get because of that.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.