My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

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

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.

The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

If critics find my songs monotonous, then I also find their opinion monotonous.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

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

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