Quotes About Feedback

When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I end up feeling like my film is more interesting, it becomes more fun to watch and I get a special energy that feeds back into my process.

There are very few people who work for me who are afraid to tell me what I don't want to hear.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

When you're filming any show off a live audience, you get a feedback straightaway about how it's going, and the audience always enjoyed it.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

I understand my game better and what I do well, what I do is shoot the ball and finds ways to score and that was the feedback from the coaches to me - remember who you are and let the ball fly.

If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.

If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

I've said some things on stage where the crowd was like, 'Whoa, that's bad' - and I never say it again because that's the feedback I get.

I know, whoever visits my restaurant, they have loved the food.

There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.