John Darnielle Quotes

I don't have a publicist.

I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

I don't do anything for press.

Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out. Trump doesn't have to run an ad. Trump doesn't have to run a series. He doesn't have to pay people to show up. He doesn't have to buy TV advertising, because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy. And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off. Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters. And you know who gives it to him? The media.

I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass media to communicate with the people, and it just costs an awful lot of money.

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

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

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

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

You can pander, but you've got to do it in a way that doesn't seem like pandering.

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

I'm the master at publicity.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

I'm doing TV interviews, I'm doing many, many print interviews.