"I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers."
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"If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level."
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"You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion."
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"I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it."
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"I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again."
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"I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them."
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"If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion."
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"For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies."
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"To review ones store is to mow twice."
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"Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published."
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"I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though."
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"For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?"
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"I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books."
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"The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry."
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"The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial."
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