Critics Quotes

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

I am a little god! Critics, be gone!

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.

Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

No critic ever changed the world.

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not aware of it, but it is hard, physical work.

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.