I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.
There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no harm done. After all, the audience seem to enjoy the show and Sally and the theatres certainly enjoy the profits.
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.