Quotes of: Film-criticism Keyword

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

Amit Abraham

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

Patrick Marber

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to mak...

Bill Plympton

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

Rick Gonzalez

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The Critic as Artist

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Rosanna Arquette

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Lyrical and Critical Essays

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Principles of Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics)

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.

Voice of Reason

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

The Critic as Artist

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul de Man

I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'

Ray Bradbury

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Keanu Reeves

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

L.A. Hilden

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Laura Riding