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It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I don't read reviews anymore.

I want the Times to give tough reviews. That's partially why I read the Times.

I don't like to read reviews.

It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

When the numbers come it's great if we can talk about it, watch film and love the routes we're putting out there.

I've seen many shows ruined by bad reviews and good reviews, so I always tell my actors not to read the reviews until after the run is over.

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

On a scale out of five, with one being very bad and five being very good, House of Fraser is a one.

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

It is nice to be validated by audiences and have people come up to you after a screening and tell you that they loved the movie. It never gets old.

If I screw up then everyone's paying attention and I'll hear about it.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.

It's much more fun to be involved, much more fun to be under the scrutiny, much more fun to be second-guessed than to not.

There's nothing in the world like live entertainment. With TV, you have to wait for your results; with live entertainment, people let you know right then and there. That relationship is established in 30 seconds. The first 30 seconds, they'll let you know whether they like you or not.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word or altering the pace or emphasis can make a previously failed witticism work.

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.