Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I love playing, helping the team, and not talking with the press.

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

I get along fine with the press.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

I don't talk about my personal life with the press.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.

You can never get your message across if you're always answering their [reporter's] questions.

Every time I talk to the press, I put my foot in my mouth.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.