Jason Epstein Quotes

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don't want to be affected by it.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

If you’re going to give objective advice, you’ve got to take the self interest out of the equation.

Well, in my job, I avoid political commentary.

I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical.

I don't take anything personal.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Sarri was my manager, he wasn't my friend.

It is a fine line between communicating and being too chummy. My players, when I've been promoted, have been upset by top-flight refs being mates with opposition players.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

A new couple does a lot of things for each other. And slowly they lose interest and it affects the relationship. It is a part of life and a lot of people experience this.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.