Quotes About Movie Critics

#1. There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Aaron Sorkin

#2. I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Roger Ebert

#3. I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

Wesley Morris

#4. Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke

#5. Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

Jeff Lyons

#6. I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.

Kevin Smith

#7. There in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest for fear it might be thought mere curiosity. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. - ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

Janet Mock

#8. Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

Todd Phillips

#9. It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Rick Riordan

#10. In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

Hank Stuever

#11. I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn't have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal.

Beth Brooke

#12. 'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

Anurag Kashyap

#13. I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

Caitlin Moran

#14. It's over. The franchise is dead. The press killed it. Your magazine f**king killed it. New York Magazine. It's like all the critics got together and said, 'This franchise must die.' Because they all had the exact same review. It's like they didn't see the movie. Got any more gum?

Chris Noth

#15. For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact.

Andrew Klavan

#16. No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Trey Parker

#17. In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Joe Pantoliano

#18. I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni

Nobuhiro Watsuki

#19. Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Spike Jonze

#20. Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas ... for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#21. Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?

Robert Gottlieb

#22. During the course of any normal day, I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a few film critics who bring huge insight to their work.

Mike Barnicle

#23. If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

Alonso Duralde

#24. SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF

Kamil Ali

#25. Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

Allison Anders

#26. We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

Ismail Merchant

#27. Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.

Toba Beta

#28. Somehow, the person who never existed haunts me, worse than the rest of my ghosts.

Victoria Aveyard

#29. Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

Scott Rudin

#30. A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

Allison Pearson

#31. It takes the right person to open you up to your inner freak

Mandi Rain

#32. You probably can't be the Google of 2014 in terms of compensation or perks, but you can be like the Google of 1999 if you already have good answers about your mission and team.

Peter Thiel

#33. It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

Harvey Weinstein

#34. All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

Wesley Morris

#35. It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

Roger Ebert

#36. A rifle is elegant. It's an extension of your will. Take aim, squeeze the trigger, make things happen. In the hands of an expert with stillness inside of him, there's nothing more deadly than a good rifle.

Brandon Sanderson

#37. Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

David Fincher

#38. So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

Charlize Theron

#39. There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

Mary Harron

#40. I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Peter Blair Henry

#41. Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

Wim Wenders

#42. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a big-budget summer action fantasy with a sylvan, indie-film vibe, and a war movie that dares ask its audience to root for the peacemakers.

Richard Corliss

#43. I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Stephen Baldwin