John D. Ehrlichman Quotes

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I'm trying to write songs to appeal to everybody.

If I like something, it seems a pretty good bet that other people will, too.

It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.

I don't need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.

What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.

The Situation has mass appeal.

I don't attribute any 'luck' to 'Bol Bachchan''s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.

I'm a fan pleaser.

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

There is no bigger certificate than audience appreciation.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

Our goal is to focus on the unique points of view of our show creators but make shows that have broad appeal.

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.