Cary Fukunaga Quotes

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he would be like, 'Who do you think you are?' So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' but I don't think it. I'm really hard on myself.

You don't feel good about being criticised, especially when you've been loved so much.

I've come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you're going to remember, that are going to stand out.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.