Quotes About Critique

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

'Ted Lasso' is still funny and it still points fingers and holds truth to power. But it does it in a way that feels like it's a net gain rather than somebody losing out.

I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.

If I am popular across the board, from teenagers to pensioners, it's not because I'm trying to be family-orientated, it's because my mum vets all my shows! I always get a critique from her and she's very harsh.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I really don't like reality television and the nonsense that comes with it.

The number one show on television should be the most informative, educational and exciting show. 'Bonanza' is not that show.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

I never liked the way the professor used the books — zeroing in on "the text," raking and raking, sifting and sifting it through narrower and narrower filters.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present in dreams of the past and future.

She's not big on achievements either: she says so on her tumblr page. Feeling guilty about not achieving stuff is the result of internalised capitalism, apparently.' 'Seriously?' 'Oh yeah. You never been to a communist country? Everyone lies on sofas all day while trained poodles bring them cake.

Accountability means that an organization is packed with people who embody and protect excellence (even when they are tired, overburdened, and distracted), who work vigorously to spread it to others, and who spot, help, critique, and (when necessary) push aside colleagues who fail to live and spread it.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

We live in an industrial world with a globalized capitalist economy organized politically around nation-states . Finding a willing audience for even a mild critique of any of these foundational systems is not easy; suggesting that all three systems should be rethought in fundamental ways seems crazy.

The radical feminists I have worked with do not limit their critique to patriarchy. To emphasize the radical potential of radical feminism: Beyond the sex/gender system, radical feminism's understanding of the way in which patriarchy normalizes hierarchy leads not just to a focus on men's domination of women but also to a deeper critique of power systems more generally.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.