Media Reception Quotes

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

I didn't expect people would embrace 'Ang Probinsyano' the way they did during its first year.

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

It's really important to me that 'Peaky Blinders' went down so well in Birmingham. Apparently the audience share in the West Midlands was double that of any other region.

Any time you do a project you never really know how people are going to take it especially on TV. I think they used to be more forgiving with shows.

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.