Steve Byrne

that you can do with the negativity, and there's two forms of negativity.

Look, your teacher telling you you got a D minus on your book report and you're way behind and you need to focus and study harder is negativity.

She's just jealous.

That's right.

She's jealous.

But...

It's negativity that can be constructive.

And there's, you know, we've all had... Like I said, I've always been lucky in that when I get the bad reviews, I get the ones that say minus a million stars out of five stars, which doesn't mean anything because...

It's like someone cutting you off in the road and going, fuck you, dick, fuck shit.

Like, all right.

And the guy with the fucking mullet speeds off and then he throws a Mountain Dew can at you.

It's like you don't go home and go, wow, am I a bad person?

Like, that doesn't mean anything.

But when somebody you respect says something to you that has some meaning, then you have to take it in.

So I've always said, if you want to hurt me, give me one and a half stars or worse, like two.

But don't give me minus four.

That doesn't count.

So there are negative reviews that you should listen to.

But like Quentin Tarantino, for instance, if you said about his last five movies, hey, man, really good, really compelling and really interesting shit, probably could have trimmed 15 to 22 minutes out of there and tighten it up just a bit.

That would be a review that would have some negativity to it.