When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.
I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.
It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
