Film Criticism Quotes

#1. Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Wim Wenders

#2. I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Michael Showalter

#3. It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

Richard Linklater

#4. I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Camille Paglia

#5. In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Wim Wenders

#6. An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

Bell Hooks

#7. 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.

Roger Ebert

#8. My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

#9. Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

Judith Crist

#10. What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

Melanie Lynskey

#12. The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Wim Wenders

#13. Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

Greil Marcus

#14. Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

#15. It is a curious fact of literary history that a story which describes the loss of a gigantic prize provided the author with the greatest prize of his career. -

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#17. Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and the one that has kept me whole. Whenever I slip back into the world of shadows, she is the one who leads me back into the light.

Martha N. Beck

#18. I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Jane Campion

#19. Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Richard E. Grant

#20. A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Denzel Washington

#21. You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

George Lucas

#22. Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

John Lautner

#23. He was fingering his great horn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

Roger Corman

#25. The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

David Edelstein

#26. Denying that you're in denial is being in denial and is utterly redundant.

S.L. Naeole

#27. (Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.)

Walter Isaacson

#28. Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

Joan Didion

#29. Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kathe Kollwitz

#30. I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel

#31. The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Claudio Hummes

#32. Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

#33. I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

Jesse Stuart

#34. I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Walter Hill

#35. What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Brendan Fraser

#36. Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

George Ade

#37. We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

Charles Bukowski