Quotes About Critique

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

Volkanovski is good at things, but he is not great at anything. He doesn't have good footwork or striking, he doesn't finish anyone, and he stalls a lot.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way. I'm not somebody who believes all women should support each other. I believe very strongly in women critiquing each other, just not critiquing each other more intensely because they're women.

In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

I'm not anti-American. But I am very strongly anti American bacon - the worst bacon in the world.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

I have trouble applying the 'whistle-blower' label to someone who just disagrees with the way our country is structured and operates.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.

It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

I'm not opposed to talking about airline food.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.