As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
[On Pam being a Rosicrucian] Alvy Singer: I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
As the wall between advertising and content erodes, the aptitude required to understand the functions and design of media content becomes more complex.
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
BABY BOY, FASHION IS NOT FOR ADVERTISING YOUR FAVE SEX ACTS ON YOUR SHIRT. UNH-UNH, NO IT'S NOT !
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?
[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.
I’m a charitable guy. I donate my free time to watching TV—and I do it benevolently, without being compensated by advertisers.
I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.
