Quotes About Critique

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

I'd always admired Sean Connery. Even though I wonder about some of his choices, I like him even in bad movies.

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

Wherever the Church suppresses the message of Christ in favour of power, wealth and status, the prophets will always be found condemning this kingdom, claiming that it is forged by human hands in order to legitimize human endeavours. Insofar as Christianity fails to engage in self-critique, not only realizing its own conceptual limitations but also pointing out our own failings, it becomes a discourse about our kingdom and not God's.

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

In his critique of reason, Nietzsche accomplished nothing less than the proof that all cognition is local in character and that, in imitating the divine eye, no human observer is able to go as far as really transcending his own location.

Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.

he sees that it does not accord with the practices of the sage-kings of old and does not promote the benefit of the people in the world today. And so our teacher Mozi says, "Musical performances are wrong!

books are a load of crap

Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.

Baudelaire, ici encore, se montre beaucoup plus radical que Flaubert ; notamment à propos de George Sand : bête, lourde, bavarde, « elle a dans les idées morales la même profondeur de jugement […] que les concierges et les filles entretenues » ; « théologienne du sentiment », elle