Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.
You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.
It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.
You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.
I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.
You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
I've done some good work and some not-good work.
I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?
I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.
People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.
