Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Somebody's upset with every movie.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

When you put your all in and people say 'he has given up,' that is hard to take.

Hulk fans are impossible to please.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.