Joe Sedelmaier famous quotes

It's the 'National Enquirer' for the ad people
-- Joe Sedelmaier

#People #Advertising #Ads

That's the way it goes with the whole human thing - nobody wants to take a risk. But to be entertaining is not risky, everybody likes to be entertained.
-- Joe Sedelmaier

#Risk

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.
-- Joe Sedelmaier

#Country #Art #Thinking

In some ways, it's easier to go from short form to long form than vice versa. I used to make 30 second 'movies,' and I think if I only did long form I would find it difficult to adjust to that short a length. 'I gotta say something in 30 seconds. Forget about it!' There have been directors who have done commercials over the years, but they seem to be the exception.
-- Joe Sedelmaier

#Thinking #Long #Done

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".