Quotes About Critique

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

I tell you this: if I was in the house with those people in the Bergman flicks, I'd walk right out, much less pay $5 to see them.

I like that part of the culture of 'MST3K' is this constant dialog on what movies could be done and what movies should be done. I've seen plenty of bad movies and walked out afterward thinking 'That would have been perfect for 'MST3K.''

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

I have seen a billion rom-coms, but the majority I've been hate-watching on purpose, to laugh at them and not with them.

You don't want to really pick on someone that you genuinely like. In terms of 'Billy on the Street,' there are certain actors - I don't care if they find out because I do feel that way. Though it's almost never about appearance or something out of their control. I pick on choices they've made or roles they've taken.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

'Udta Punjab' has a brilliant script.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.