#critic

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#defeat #destroy #entire #everyone #families

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#day #done #every #every day #harem

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. ↗

— Clive Bell

#aesthetic #conceive #critic #degree #emotion

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#critical #find #had #handed #hard

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#critic #drive #knows #man #way

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#became #complexity #critic #effort #had

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#argument #believe #counts #critically #depends

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#critic #every #history #last #literary