Quotes: Criticism
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
American novelist (1891-1980)
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.
American film critic and author (1942-2013)
I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.
English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer
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.
American actress (born 1966)
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.
British theatre, film and television director
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.
American literary critic (1917-2003)
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
American writer and women's activist (1810-1850)
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.