Critics Quotes - Page 4

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Youth need less critics and more models.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Women critics are amazons in climax.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

The market is the only critic that matters.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.