Sam Esmail Quotes

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

I've always had the media going against me every year.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

TV critics came after me for overhyping LeBron. A lot of people don't know this, but I didn't want to do the game. I told ESPN, 'We're making this kid into something special.' I always follow orders, whatever my people want me to do.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Ram Gopal Varma is a great filmmaker, but I don't know what satisfaction he gets from his tweets. I think he wakes up every day with an idea to play with someone's mind.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but you do have to defend his right to say it.

What happens if the music or alter ego isn't well received? The fact that people are talking about it, I won already.

We've won both the best and worst band in so many major magazines - we just get written off so much, but we don't care.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.

The media has had its fun with me.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.