Top 300 Reviews Quotes

When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics’ reviews and box office figures.

Bad reviews come with everything. I’ve been getting them my whole life.

My debut feature, ‘The Baby-Sitters Club,’ got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

I’m not used to getting good reviews.

I’m at the point now where I know I’m doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I’m not in the box. I don’t want to make it too easy for people and I don’t want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.

Personally, I read reviews because I’m interested by them, but they don’t have utility for me.

Browse Amazon reviews, and you’ll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

It’s fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you’re young; your resilience is just terrific.

I don’t take reviews seriously. I don’t even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What’s his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?

I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people’s heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we’d done before. People didn’t know what was going on.

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service’s broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

I’m fully aware, I’ve gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It’s not a really big deal; it’s something I can deal with.

I directed ‘Death in the Gunj’ which released in 2017. It got very good reviews and a few awards but did not do well at the box-office. But I’m not bothered. I made the film that I wanted to make. It was not a film for everyone.

I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

I’m not very popular, because they’re bleak and they’re mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I’m only writing fiction. I’m not making munitions, so I think it’s acceptable.

I don’t want to become too self-conscious – it’s why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

Anybody could put their thoughts on a record out there. I think the world of reviews and opinions is now very much a meritocracy.

I used to get these reviews in American newspapers saying that they didn’t understand what my lyrics were about. I saw that as a compliment. That’s exactly what English songwriters should be doing!

I don’t read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don’t know.

Usually, when you’re putting out a record, you have reviews from people a week before, and you have a vibe ’cause everyone’s heard it – you’ve heard feedback from everyone, and they’ve listened to your single for a couple of months. Radio’s playing it.

All over the web there are some very good critics and it’s become for people who are interested. It’s become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

There’s two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Audiences don’t come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won’t get affected.

Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, ‘I’ve read enough now’.

The film’s success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn’t had a big impact on my life yet.

I’ve adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

In my work at ‘Entertainment Weekly,’ I had written reviews and news stories about YA books and film franchises and was always moved by how smart and voracious and loyal the readers were. Everything we did got lots of attention and reaction.

It’s really cool to read feedback. I’m trying not to engage too much, though, because I spiral out even if the reviews are, like… positive.

‘Reno 911: Miami!’ is a terrible, terrible title, and all the reviews – good and mostly bad – nobody pointed out how stupid a title that was. But you can hardly come up with a sentence that’s more awkward.

I’m really proud of ‘Cars.’ ‘Cars,’ when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

When ‘Himmatwala’ didn’t work, the negativity factor attached to the reviews were more pointed towards me. That’s when I realized, that something has gone wrong.

You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I’ve realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn’t feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me ‘simian.’ I had to look that up at the time.

I never read my reviews… not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn’t applaud, it bothers her. I’m the same way. I’d be devastated to read that someone didn’t like my work.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There’s nothing that says I can’t write a page of full stops. There is no ‘should’ involved, although you wouldn’t know that from literary reviews and critics.

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.

I don’t like it when reviews aren’t about the movie. When they’re about how much money somebody made, or who they’re sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

I wish I didn’t have to validate myself by reading reviews.

I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I’ve never really kept up with that side of it.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

One thing I loved when I was growing up, you maybe saw one review from a magazine like ‘Rolling Stone,’ but now there are 150 reviews before an album even comes out. There are so many opinions out there, but the only one that really matters is your own.

I can’t see how I’d learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

Getting bad reviews or doing something that’s not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I’ve earned my stripes a bit.

I have seen some films which were bad or trashy been given four stars. From that day on, I don’t believe in reviews.

I’m probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it’s that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don’t know why that is.

To be honest, before the American publication of ‘The Three-Body Problem’, I prepared myself for the possibility of uniformly negative reviews.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report – it’s like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?