“To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.” GivingStuffHollywoodCriticsComplainingFlipNew Stuff Author:Peter Farrelly
“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
“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.” PeopleWantMadeDifferentDoneActorsMaterialsInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHappeningsHollywoodExcitingCriticsEmbarrassedStanding Out Author:Pauly Shore
“You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.” WantDifferentAudienceDirectorsHollywoodCriticsGutsAgain And Again Author:David Ayer
“I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.” ThinkingArtUseViewsResponsibilityHollywoodCriticsPoint Of ViewPhrasesRelyWorks Of ArtAestheticExaminationClinicals Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.” LooksSaidTwoStarsFourNew YorkSafeHollywoodWestCriticsLondonSubstanceFascinatingReviewsJudgedPlatesThey SaidObserversPersonaNew York TimesGreat OnesDevastationFireworksWest Hollywood Author:Gordon Ramsay
“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” IfsI CanTwoReasonSexWomenInspiringHollywoodCriticsRefuseObstaclesGenderResistanceCinemaFilmmakerMovieCan't ChangeFamous WomenCinematographyMovie Director Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.” WantWritingArtArtistPowerfulCriticismHollywoodCriticsReviewsInspiring Writing Author:William Faulkner