I don’t read reviews until after I’m done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I’m always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.
I’m a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig’s 007. ‘Empire’ and ‘Hot Dog’ had great reviews, and finally he’s been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it’s awful.
I never read reviews of something I want to see.
I made a record in 1996 called ‘Animal Rights’ that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I’ve made, it’s my favorite one. It’s also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst.
I read all the reviews. I remember the first review I ever read about our band was, ‘They’ll be gone tomorrow; they’ll be gone quicker than they came.’
I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I’m like a rich person who says he doesn’t care about money.
Obviously, the hotel is related to my name, so my mom makes sure the staff, the service, the cleaning part of it is 100 out of 100. Not 99, 100 out of 100. We’ve got great reviews because of that. That’s why a lot of people want to stay out our place, because we provide a lot of good services.
It’s weird being an author because it’s different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be judged because it’s a memoir. So when the reviews come in, they all feel really personal. Some people are just going to hate you no matter what. Personally, I never believe good reviews.
I already don’t read reviews, I don’t seek them out. Sometimes my family will tell me if there’s a nice one.
If I had my way, I wouldn’t do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.
Reviews are written by people who don’t understand the process of sitcom. I don’t read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, ‘Does this have reason to exist in the world?’ And you’re reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist – whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.
I hate reading reviews.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
In one respect, it’s easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it’s a spectator sport.
I’ve always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.
I try not to read all reviews, but its just that after a point there is nothing much that you can do about it. You can learn and take forward things and use it in your next film. As long as reviews translate into bums on the seat, I think there isn’t much I can do.
I always used to want everyone to like me, because it used to hurt so much when people made snidey comments or gave me bad reviews, but I’ve learnt to deal with it.
The ‘New York Times’ reviews of my work have been evenly divided – favourable and unfavourable.
I don’t take much notice of reviews now – obviously you’d like to have straight worship but you’re never going to get that.
I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.
Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, ‘You know that point they made… they were dead on.’
For the first time in my career, I’m working in a fine-arts arena, so I’m finally getting some intelligent reviews.
To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Shorter work – personal essays and book reviews – allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones – like most writers.
I don’t like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: ‘Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.’
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
That’s what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who’s looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
I don’t read young adult or children’s books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I’m aware of what’s out there. But I tend not to read the books.
In Chennai, I do film reviews for a local channel. Every second movie I review is by a debutant. There is so much passion and freshness in those films; that makes them special.
That’s the miracle of Amazon! It’s like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who’s gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.
With feature films, it’s a one-time judgment once your film is premiered. Reviews, box office, and then you move on to the next project. With TV, you are being rated and judged weekly for an eight-month stretch.
If you start believing all that press about you, you’re in trouble. I don’t even read my reviews.
What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system – health care wise, safety wise – highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I’m very comfortable in the quality of our system.
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
I often don’t read reviews.
I don’t want to lie to my subscribers, so I’m really honest about my reviews and stuff.
I don’t read reviews.
I’m not one to get bad reviews.
I’ve experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I’m not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as ‘glacial.’ I wasn’t thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.
People keep saying, ‘Oh, you’re getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.’ I guess it does, but mostly it’s just a relief.
When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.
I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I’m stronger for it – and I have a tougher skin as a result.
But I honestly don’t read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can’t hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there’s so much else to say about food.
My policy is to not read any reviews.
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.
The upfront spend to build trial, authentic reviews, web traffic, and passion for your product is far less expensive than paying tens of thousands of dollars for a one-time activation with an ‘of the moment’ star.
I’m used to bad reviews.
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that’s not reality and no one’s perfect.
I don’t read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you’ve got to believe the bad things, too.
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn’t read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
