Critics Quotes

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

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.

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 .

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Children need models rather than critics.

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

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

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