#evie

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#awkward #convince #desperate #having #hype

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #angry #bad #bad idea #every

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#book #character #contents #first #function

I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them. ↗

— Tom Ford

#celebrity #clothes #customers #every #i

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#enormously #get #good #review #seems

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#ask #game #good #good job #job

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranging #article #articles #aside #barracks

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times. ↗

— Chris Ware

#clearly #films #get #go #i

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. ↗

— Peter Weir

#become #certain #decisions #done #forced

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#bigger #consumers #critically #esteemed #far