The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. – Marshall McLuhan
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. – Marshall McLuhan
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. – Marshall McLuhan
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I dont want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, theres a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. – Tom Hanks