Quotes About Critique

We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

I like reading things where someone's looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they've thought about it, even if they don't necessarily like it.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.

We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.

SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

I've had enough of Bhojpuri cinema actually.

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Not every Hammer film was perfect.

A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.