Quotes About Reviews

In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

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

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

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

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

People always say that you shouldn't read reviews at all, or if you do then believe both the good and the bad ones. I just choose to believe the ones that think I'm brilliant. The ones that don't, well, I just don't bother with them.

When I made my first film, 'Shopping,' the reviews were incredibly snooty. They said things like, 'Jude Law is too pretty for the role,' and that's why I don't respect the British press. That kind of small-minded thing doesn't consider what people like.

There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

With "unlimited selection," "unfiltered customer reviews," and "ultimate personalization," the three unmatchable and innate advantages of the Internet, Bezos was confident that no physical bookstores, no matter how big they were then, could be serious competitors in the long run.

It's a different era. I understand what Charles Barkley was saying but you just can't take guys out. There's too much scrutiny. There's too many replays and reviews, and cameras everywhere.

For something to be profitable doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards - I've worked on comedies, and now I've worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres.

There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.