Will Oldham Quotes

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

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

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

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 was in a profession that received a lot of media.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

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

Talking to the press is not always good.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

My dad doesn't give me any advice about how to handle publicity.

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

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

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

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 get along fine with the press.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I'm always having to get rid of reporters.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.