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Quotes About Reviews

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.
~ Susan Isaacs
Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
~ Eileen Myles
I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.
~ Henry Mancini
I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
~ Simon Schama
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
~ William Meikle
I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
~ Joanna Trollope
1922 was a bad year for Elizabeth. She was disappointed by some of the reviews of The Enchanted April although it was to prove the most popular — excepting the first — of all her novels. She suffered from depressions that she couldn't throw off. Her doctor diagnosed menopausal symptoms.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The upfront spend to build trial, authentic reviews, web traffic, and passion for your product is far less expensive than paying tens of thousands of dollars for a one-time activation with an 'of the moment' star.
~ Carolyn Aronson
All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.
~ Roger Ebert
Every week, I'm faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I'd be able to pop a review out of. But I'm just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
~ Anthony Fantano
From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'
~ Kevin Smith
I really hate people that spoil stuff by putting scripts online. I don't mind so much people that do movie spoilers when the movie is out in the theater. If you haven't gotten there the first weekend, it's on you to not read reviews or anything. But to put up screenplay reviews just kills me.
~ Craig Mazin
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
~ Rod Lurie
Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.
~ Lindsey Morgan
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out. Especially at a low price point like .99. Customers are suckers for the fallacy that the cream rises to the top.
~ Andrew Shaffer
That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.
~ Nigel Hamilton
Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
~ Barry Diller
I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
Every person with a phone is a critic.
~ Farah Khan
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
~ Mark McGrath
I don't read the critics.
~ Olivier Dahan
When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.
~ Billy Crystal