Michael Hastings Quotes

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.

Actors should never give interviews.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

I really hate press.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

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

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

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

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.