Dick Wolf Quotes

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

I will accept comments and criticism about change.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

I wouldn't say I give the hairdryer treatment but when we've not performed well you have to make people aware.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

All the time, people are always saying to me that I need to shoot more.

Any show should be open to listening to constructive criticism.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.

It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.

I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.