Promoters Quotes

To me, The Wild Bunch (1969) was distasteful. It would have been a good picture without the gore. Pictures go too far when they use that kind of realism, when they have shots of blood spurting out and teeth flying, and when they throw liver out to make it look like people`s insides. "The Wild Bunch" was one of the first to go that far in realism, and the curious went to see it. That may make the bankers and stock promoters think that it is a necessary ingredient for successful motion pictures. They seem to forget the one basic principle of our business - illusion. We`re in the business of magic. I don`t think it hurts a child to see anything that has the illusion of violence in it. All our fairy tales have some kind of violence - the good knight riding to kill the dragon, etc. Why do we have to show the knight spreading the serpent`s guts all over the candy mountain?

In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

I`m a free agent. I haven`t allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don`t need a promoter.

They`ve gone to great length to disguise the fact that I`m not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don`t talk skin to me.

Over the last couple of years we have been offered deals by other promoters but we have always stayed with Frank because we like him.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts,