Why movie and dance critics are taking ‘The Company’ seriously, I can’t imagine. Are they impressed by Altman’s reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?
You’re always nervous about what critics say – about what anybody has to say, really.
I’m not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It’s probably just because I’m a weird person.
Girls’ inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.
I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that’s okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that’s great.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
I think it’s a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of Asians, black folks. I actually see black folks out here, unlike some of our liberal critics.
I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
Every time I make a picture the critics’ estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
I don’t care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it’s really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, ‘I hope people like it!’ I’m not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on ’50/50′ that most critics really liked it.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
As an actor, you’ve got to have faith in the director’s vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
When James Frey’s ‘A Million Little Pieces’ turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.
All the world’s a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.
There’s nothing more satisfying than having an idea and seeing it through to find out that, not only did you like it, but the audience and critics all seemed to agree.
My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there’s never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it’s the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don’t run at the box office. I make films for the masses.
When you look at critics in wrestling, it’s a real special fan base. There’s a lot of voices, but at the end of the day, there’s only one voice that really matters, and that’s your boss’s, right? There’s a lot of cooks in a lot of kitchens. It can be hard because there are some fans you really have to set aside.
We shared the same fears as kids – snakes and clowns. Now we also have more adult fears, like television critics.
It’s predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that’s changing, definitely.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven’t done anything. I never really bothered much and I don’t care.
Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there’s no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that’s not the case.
The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics – these are all around us and in such abundance that we hardly know where to look for the real thing. Or perhaps there is no real thing?
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn’t, he should be ashamed of himself.
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama’s hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright’s decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
When you dare me to do something, I will say, ‘Watch me’. That is what I say to critics. ‘Watch me’.
Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you’re kind of mean-spirited.
I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
I care very much what the fans think. I’m starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there’s a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‘Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.’ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
It’s quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I’ve got something completely wrong, and it’s good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.
‘The New Yorker’s’ drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
To me, success means either the audience have to like your movie or the critics have to.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we’d not have the record of each season.
I never wish for critics.
I’m very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
I’m not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I’m not that guy. I don’t want people being like, ‘Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.’ It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
In 1994, the critics said I was too young, in 1998, that I couldn’t cross the ball, and in 2002 that I didn’t know how to defend.
I think women are excellent social critics.
I’m not reading reviews and critics. I don’t care. I guess I’m still a little on my own planet.
The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Yes, there is an image people have of me, that I did only sweet boy roles. With ‘Ek Villain,’ I got the opportunity to break out from this image. It is a way of answering my critics, to tell them I am here to perform and not just for glamour.
You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.
