“There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.” CareFilmCriticsWho Cares Author:Richard Roeper
“I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.” TryingMatterFilmWishMoralColorRaisesCriticsSophisticatedAnna Author:James McBride
“When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.” KnowsMadeFilmRealizingBloodCriticsShooting Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“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.” FirstsFilmFoundFatherChangedCriticismCriticsEngineersAssistantsChanged My LifeStanfordFilm Critics Author:Roger Corman
“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.” FeelsWritingMindFirstsHas BeensHelpingFilmValuesSinQualityNovelJudgingImpactMereCriticsDrivenGuiltyCraftsCinemaVisualsProseTechniciansDisserviceFilm Critics Author:Orson Welles
“There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.” WarFilmCriticsSquaresFilm Critics Author:John Waters
“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.” IfsYearsKindDoeFilmNextWishInfluenceCarCostCriticsExplainingMotorNext YearHelicoptersPostcardsGeneral Motors Author:Kenneth Tynan
“Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.” PeopleIfsShouldWholeTodayFilmCultureReadingIndividualMillionsToo MuchExampleInvolvedHollywoodCriticsPopulationLikesCentsCompetingGrossCautionPopular CultureStanleyFragmented Author:Mark Steyn
“I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.” WantFeelsYearsWellsLongFeelingsFilmSpiritGrowsTenHollywoodCriticsCome UpFeel GoodMediumsNosesGenerousThumbsBest FilmGenerous Spirit Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.” ThinkingIdeasPlayFilmForceCriticsNo IdeaIntangible Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.” FilmSocialStepsWonderfulGeniusCriticsSettingSettingsVulnerablePoeticSuspectsCriticizeWoody Author:Mel Brooks
“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.” IfsWould BeFilmBrotherTownsCriticsStudiosAdamStarbucksFilm Critics Author:Alonso Duralde
“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.” IfsThinkingTryingMayFilmEasyDifficultPoetCriticsPainter Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.” PeopleFilmTalkingCritics Author:Rani Mukerji