Colm Meaney Quotes

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

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

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

I don't stage my own publicity.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.

It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.

I've got them in the can and I am looking for a label.

Advertising is the life of trade.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.

We've got to make sure we keep the media attention on us; being on telly and in the papers gets people interested.

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

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

If you really look at the numbers at the entertainment industry, in comparison to the small number of Scientologists that are celebrities, the number wouldn't even register. I think Scientology has done an amazing job convincing people that there is a great number of celebrities in the "Church."

You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

Everybody has something now. It's become very over-saturated, and it's hard to weed out what's good, what you should watch and what you have time to watch. And Twitter was much less crowded, at the time, and it was an easier way to reach people. So, the combination of having a great video, a lot more access to people through Twitter, and having Kickstarter be this new thing in. We tapped into it, at its inception, and got people interested in it just based on the concept of what Kickstarter was. The timing was right.

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

The weirdest moments for me are in Los Angeles when I go to a mall that I've shopped at since I was 12, and now there's like, massive pictures of our faces everywhere, at my local coffee shops now there's these billboards of people wearing the T-shirts and stuff. It's very strange, but it's really exciting.