Quotes About Reception

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

When the premiere of the show came out, we threw a big party, and, like, five minutes into the party, me and Corey walked out of the party and said... 'No one's ever gonna watch this.'

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.

When I came up with the idea for 'Tuskegee,' I didn't want to be confined by boundaries of age, genre or demographics. I am thrilled with how well this album has been received by people from all walks of life. It is truly living up to the vision we had when we created it.

It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'

When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That's fine.

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

If you're in front of a Ring of Honor crowd and you suck, they'll let you know.

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

'Heavy Rain' responded to a period of my life, things I strongly believed in, things I wanted to suggest or experiment with. I'm really happy with the overall feedback; the reception was a success.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism; they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Our thinking is a pious reception.

attention to the difference in tenses. The verbs believe and receive are in the present, but the verb shall have is in the future. The inspired writer is telling us something of the greatest importance by this seemingly minor difference in the grammar of the sentence.

Influential theologian J. Gresham Machen perhaps said it best: False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. (Machen, CC, 7)

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.