There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.
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.