Quotes About Critique

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

I want to decouple this idea that critique is hatred.

'Cannonball Run II' - you watch that, and it looks like they're having a good time, but it's not necessarily a masterpiece.

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.