Michael Nesmith Quotes

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

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

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

I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.

I'm the master at publicity.

I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

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

I've never played the PR game.

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

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

I know certain techniques, such as a press release that looks like a newscast. So you use it because you want your man to win.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

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.