I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.
Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
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.
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.
Young people are so often dissed by the media.