Alexandre Desplat Quotes

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it.

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.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

I got a lot of criticism online and a lot of harsh comments.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

I try not to engage with those people who leave nasty comments.

There have been times when people have told me to lose weight or tone up certain areas... It hurts no matter who you are and how skinny you are or how big you are.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

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.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

He alone may chastise who loves.

I get most of my reviews through e-mail, and then I go and read it and go on message boards to check it out. I want to see what's out there and to better estimate my position. I'm definitely happy that a lot of people are voting positively for Postal - especially the hundreds and hundreds who actually saw it. Still, there are a lot of people who didn't see it who are giving me only one point out of 10 because they hate me, and it has nothing to do with the movie.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

Critics build nothing.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes the comments over the top - really ugly. Many of them are critical of my looks, like the one that criticized my "thunder thighs." I get that a lot. Some of the tweets are too vulgar to repeat.