Top 1200 Film Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

Constructive criticism is not much accepted in the Caribbean.

You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

After the blockbuster 'Magadheera,' I made a film with comedian Sunil as the hero. If I am interested in making a film - big or small - I will go ahead and make it.

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

I take constructive criticism really well.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

Criticism is for real. The amount of hate that I get is.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Sometimes too much criticism is unwarranted.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

I will die trying to do another 'Baahubali' kind of film. It's not a film that can be easily replicated. I believe only Rajamouli has the experience and vision to handle projects on such scale.

'Ramaiya Vastavaiya' means, 'Ram, will you come?' The movie is a remake of the Telegu film 'Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana,' which was my first film as a director. So, it's close to my heart.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

Some players benefit from criticism, but for others, they don't.

You can't let criticism stop you from learning new things.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

The criticism that Arsene gets is just a joke.

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

'Aashiqui' became a cult hit film. It was my first film which gave me not just recognition but stardom too, so I will always remain partial to it.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I try not to let praise or criticism affect me.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.

Democracy provides the space for open criticism.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.

We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

I get too upset by online criticism.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.