Quotes of: Reviewers Keyword

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

James Franco

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

Werner Herzog

Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparati...

Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality

We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy makes randy; liquor makes desire flicker"; or, as Shakespeare's porter said to Macduff: "[drink] provokes the desi...

Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality

Readers have the right to say whatever the fuck they want about a book. Period. They have that right. If they hate the book because the MC says the word “delicious” and the reader believes it’s the Devil’s word and only evil people use it, th...

Stacia Kane

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

Afterparty

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

Patricia Arquette

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Siri Hustvedt

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

Tim Gunn

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

Taylor Swift

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

Ron Kind

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Redbone

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

Adam McKay

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

Eve Best

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

Lev Grossman

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

Chris Hardwick

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carroll O'Connor

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

Ivan Reitman

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Donal Henahan

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

Melanie Lynskey

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

Will Friedle