Quotes: Criticism

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

I’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.

Anytime you put a movie out it’s subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it’s who has that last decision.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.