Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

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 don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

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 don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

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

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

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.

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 know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

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

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

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.

I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.

I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

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

I'd like to say I don't care, but I do. 'Cause when you put out a record, you try to do it for yourself first, and you want your audience to accept it, but you also want the press to accept it, too, because it validates what you do.

I really do care what people think, and I revolved my whole career and all the twenty five years with Dream Theater... I ran that band and made decisions based on caring what the fans thought and wanted.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.