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I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.
I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.
People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just ... ugh, you know?
The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.
To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.
I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.
Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.
His dreams are like commercials.
Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.
I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.
If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
When your buddy tells you a movie is good, that's worth 2,000 commercials.
Many decisions about the form and content of news programs are made on the basis of information about the viewer, the purpose of which is to keep the viewers watching so that they will be exposed to the commercials
Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.
In our quest to tweet, like, and trend, we have forgotten that brands can be built through advertising. Ads can generate big ideas that can never be trumped by tactics. That is the magic of an ad, and that is what is missing from many ads today.
I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
I hate negative ads in general.
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.
It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.
I like infomercials.
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.
I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.
Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.
XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"
The greatest impediment to women's liberation is dumb commercials.
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people.
I think commercials are something that everyone does to get out there and get a little bit of exposure, get their feet wet, and also pay the bills. So anytime you can be a part of a wonderful, fun commercial, that's just a bonus.
Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.
In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.
I used to want to write commercials as a kid.
If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.
Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
I've done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they're going to be compared directly against other ads.
Advertisement behind all the humility. It looked
No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.
A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.
There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim ... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
I started noticing a lot of big companies are bored with ads; they feel sort of lost in the advertising world. They're not into magazines anymore.
Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.
If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.
It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
Advertising can be a very frustrating business.
Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.
The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
No one's on at my time but infomercials.
Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.
there's nothing wrong with ads. It's how newspapers and radio stations and Tv channels pay the bills and turn a profit. But please stop the bullshit about the "conversations".
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.
As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out
In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster
If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.
I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.
Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer
Upfronts are all about ad sales.
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that's what I call consumer sovereignty!
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do ...
Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.
I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
The game was two hours, with the commercials. I wish they did that now.
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet
Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.