Media Blitz Quotes

[Describing a presidential campaign:] A three year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.

In the 1972 election campaign the citizen would be the victim of the most sophisticated sales blizzard ever inflicted on any voting population anywhere.

You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

In an election campaign, sleep is for the weak.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

If other members of the Hindi film fraternity are doing aggressive promotional campaigns, then I can do the same.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

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

We live in a perpetual campaign world.

What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.

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