#critics

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

#accommodation #airline #articles #bags #beautiful

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#critics #each #exists #filmmakers #harshly

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. ↗

— Samuel Wesley

#dress #gaudy #modest #neat #please

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man's distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: 'This tower is most interesting.' But they also said (after pushing it over): 'What a muddle it is in!' And even the man's own descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: 'He is such an odd fellow! Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beowulf #criticism #critics #fantasy #literature

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ↗

— Malcolm X

#critics #likely #you

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#hard #hard work #lot #movies #public

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#audience #critics #different #finding #individuals

In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#bring #cant #critics #feeling #gets