Critic Quotes
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Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.
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What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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To a professional critic theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.
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'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.
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Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.
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Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. This resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
