Quotes About Critique

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I always look for the bad. There's plenty to improve on.

Though there are plenty of reasons to critique U.S. foreign policy and the way in which the U.S. military enacts it, serving your country has long been a way for economically marginalized Americans to get an economic step up - and could be for trans people as well.

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it.

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

I'm interested in social commentary.