When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, 'Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.'
I am humbled at the fact that I always get great support and reviews from my critics, but it's the film that requires to be good enough for it to work.
When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
I have connected by phone with customers who have left negative reviews and had a chance to get to know them. Not only was I able to solve their problems, a lot of the customers were so happy with the customer service that they become repeat customers.
Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.
I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.
I'm from a more rigourous journalistic background. If I say a car is good or bad, the viewers can trust the fact that I have spent all my working life reviewing cars.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
