Carl Hiaasen Quotes

We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.

My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.

As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.

There are very few people who are Asian who have the kind of global reach that I have, not just with Asians but with non-Asians. I've worked hard for what my name represents, my brand, not just in Britain but around the world.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.

The creative industries, a source of optimism in recent years owing to, among other things, a resurgence on the world stage of British music, have come out foursquare against Brexit.

It shows that I'm an international brand if I open up in New York.

I think increasingly WWE is a global company - as much as they can they want to push out into new markets like Europe.

All economically well-off nations have used what has been dubbed 'cheque-book diplomacy,' and China does so, too. Apart from funding government-to-government lending, China has also been able to create global companies and global brands that have contributed to Chinese soft power.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

Disney is no longer just Mickey Mouse; Disney is family entertainment. And we're seeing more and more brands change into something that is far greater and broader than individual products and services.

I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.