‘Seven Turns’ was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion – and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they’d read or understood.
I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.
In the end, you have to write like you’re not afraid of the critics.
I’m telling you, every film I’ve ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
As far as criticism, I don’t mind critics. I mean, I wrote for ‘Rolling Stone’ for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don’t like is cruelty for cruelty’s sake. You don’t have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
I have continued to paint; my father – who was savaged by the critics – continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.
Manmohan Desai’s films pack a lot of joy and have a child-like quality and you can see the director is having fun, but my movies don’t suspend disbelief that much. But it’s good to be compared to Manmohan Desai. He was run down by critics in his time.
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don’t want to see land set aside.
Maybe I’m just as bad as my critics who hound me.
Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
At one point, I asked myself whether I was having fun with the national team, or whether I was just out to convince critics.
Certainly, critics are not all created equal.
We have a funny sort of love/hate relationship with critics because, unfortunately, in the art/commerce dance that we do, they drive people to the restaurant. Regardless of sometimes how well we prepare the food, if people don’t know that we’re out there, if someone isn’t talking about us, you guys aren’t coming.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
‘Margaret’ as a creative entity is something that I’m very happy and proud of. But ‘Margaret’ as a professional experience was a nightmare until it was rescued by critics and people who liked it.
Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump’s supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.
There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.
Whatever my critics say, I’ve been a hard-core journalist all my career.
We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that’s the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics.
I don’t make films for critics.
You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don’t make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.
You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the ‘talking to your enemy’ approach is to equate talking with appeasing.
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
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 of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That’s why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
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.
Some critics said, ‘Hey, why are you writing historical novels?’ I say they’re not historical, they’re contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn’t just what you can see now.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
I was trained in the ’50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley’s soul and such things.
‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
I think as you get older, you realize there’s always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It’s less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it’s more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced – I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing ‘mere’ about symbols.
People think I’m against critics because they are negative to my work. That’s not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn’t see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don’t tell me about critics.
There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection – one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality – essentially, a distorted echo chamber.
Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that’s fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it, but on the other hand, I just really want the audience to like it.
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they’ll be the first to say, ‘That was wrong! They didn’t get that right!’ They’re storytellers themselves. They’re critics. They’re going to have the critical opinion.
Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you’re able to put it together, then you’re able to go out there game after game and continue to get better, it was great, especially when I was able to prove a lot of my critics and naysayers wrong.
I have performed all over the world to packed audiences. I don’t have to be a trained musician to prove my singing abilities to my critics.
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we’re not pure enough, good omens appear.
I did watch ‘Ee Varsham Sakshiga’ with fans in the theatre and I saw them enjoying every bit of the movie. The critics would have had their own opinions, though.
I don’t play for the critics, I play for my team-mates.
I think it’d be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.
