Quotes About Feedback

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.

Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I've worked under a lot of managers, whether it's the national team or at St Mirren and everyone has their moments. I think it is important, you can't just let things pass if they are not good enough.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I've had some strange notes from fans and a few weird gifts.

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

I don't feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, 'That worked; I'll do things like that more.'

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.

Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.