Jon Favreau Quotes

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

The easiest way to get on television these days is to be extremely rude.

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'

I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

Reality shows always look for the worst people.

Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

When I was in advertising we used naked women to pull them in. Now I use swastikas and uniforms.

If you say a more outrageous thing than everyone else that day, you're going to get the headlines.