I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
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