Scott Glenn Quotes

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I download TV shows more and more, especially from the U.S.

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

I love watching TV.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don't eat Wheaties, so I can't do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I'd take it right away. Apple Jacks, I'd be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.

People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show on Nickelodeon if I thought it was well written. Actually Nickelodeon's kind of awesome.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.