Quotes About Critique

I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

I'm not a great fan of very short films.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.

If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.

Whoever thought of making ballet? I mean, what is it? It's so alien. You just look at people's behavior as well - people trying to show off on stage and people clapping.

There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.

My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else.

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one on its own merits.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.