Quotes About Reception

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

I don't really have a bad premiere experience. They're exciting at first. I think, when you first get into the business, you're excited about going down the line and seeing what that's like.

It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.

With 'The Replacements,' it was insane. I'd never done a movie that opened up and made, like, seven million dollars. I'd never been part of, like, a four-day press junket for a movie that was international and domestic.

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

I think it's nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.

Here's the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.

It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

But because Christ is both the incarnate and the crucified, and wills to be recognized as both equally, the proper reception of the historical heritage of antiquity is still an open task for the West.

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?