Ian McShane Would Rather "Be S--- In A Hit, Than A Hit In S---" #shorts

Ian McShane explains why critics get it wrong when they praise performances in films they consider to be bad.

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00:00You'd rather be a shit and a hit than a hit and shit. It's true. If somebody says it's a,

00:04well, I never understand critics, they go, it's a terrible film, but the performances,

00:09you go, no, you can't separate them. But if the film is a hit, it's like,

00:15everybody said, well, success is, you know, success is many fathers and failure is an orphan,

00:19you know? I mean, which is always the most sad line about everything in life, basically.

00:24But especially movies, because everybody, I mean, you'd be amazed at people that come out

00:28to woodwork and say they were involved with John Wick or had nothing to do with it, you know,

00:31originally. Oh, I produced that idea. You said, no, you probably, you read the script once and then

00:36it went past you. Well, that's Hollywood, you know? Yeah. You once said in an interview,

00:40I think it was a Milton Berle quote, that you'd rather be, what is it? Oh, well, that's Milton Berle.