John Hillcoat Quotes
It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
Quotes to Explore
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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No fruit. No veggie.
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I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and you like what you like. But I felt like with 'Pride,' certainly when it was released in America, there were certain things that went on with the marketing where I though we're pandering to whatever the vibe is of that area.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.
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There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.
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All the animals cheered when he entered, and crowded round to congratulate him and say nice things about his courage, and his cleverness, and his fighting qualities; but Toad only smiled faintly, and murmured, 'Not at all!' Or, sometimes, for a change, 'On the contrary!'
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A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
