Eugene Mirman Quotes

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.

Dorm-room life was a tough transition. You're young, and you realize how much you miss the comfort of home.

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

It's not easy putting on a festival, there's a lot of moving parts.

Joining the Islander family and living on the Island has been special.

I think, it's important to understand how to release a film.

I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy.

In my heart, I was drawn to PR.

I don't think it is wrong when you - when an actor goes and sells his film. I mean, it's salesmanship; you got to tell the world what you have. You got to tell them, 'These are my wares; please see how do you like them. If you like to buy them, please buy them.' There's nothing wrong in that.

It's no secret that the UFC doesn't promote Brazilians.

I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

The UFC wants to put on shows that the fans want to see, and if the fans want to see you fight someone, that's what's going to happen.

To make an entire country as big as America aware of a movie costs so much money.

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

Leading Eventbrite has taught me a lot about how to connect with people to drive results.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I think the best promo guys make it sound like it's not a promo.

I started a festival of short films produced for television, and as the secretary of the organisation that ran it I used to work very closely with the state government.

When I get into 'Lucha Underground,' now it feels like I'm part of a collaboration. And I'm talking about storylines; I'm talking about how we can put matches together, where we're going to go, what's going to happen to 'Lucha Underground' as a promotion; what's going to happen with my character; and I was back in suddenly.