Dries van Noten Quotes

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

I have no salary from the Lugar Center. Essentially, the moneys we have received has been from foundations.

For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

To a great extent, it is our money that is funding some of the problems with which we must cope.