Evan Goldberg Quotes

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.