We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.
Critics never build anything.
I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the positive comments from readers.
To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.
Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
