Critics Quotes - Page 12

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

Everybody is their own critic.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them.

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

I know all the critics.

I was never a critic.

I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.