Quotes About Evaluation

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

Although it's depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-'Donnie Brasco' Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi.

It is very nice to be compared to Steven Gerrard, but I know I am not at the same level.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.