Critics Quotes - Page 5

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

Critics are already made.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

For I am nothing if not critical.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

Be a doer and not a critic.

The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.

It's not the critic who counts.

My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.