There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
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.
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.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews, you forget them all. You say hello to a hundred people in the city and it doesn't mean anything to you. One racist comment passes by, and it sticks with you a decade.
Reviews about film acting are very. . . tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.
If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.
I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.
To read is human, to review is divine.
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.