Advertising Control Quotes

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with.

I'm tired of advertisers being the gatekeepers of what is and is not appropriate on news shows.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit. And I think it's really important, therefore, that some of the revolts that are undergoing right now, you know, whether it's ad blockers or other things, are people trying to set some lines so that we say, you know, this far but no further. And this is where it ends.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

I can say that every ad that I control, that I'm going to make sure my ads are positive.

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.