Quotes About Criticism

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like "oh.. really?

If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

Great work is always shunned at first.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to say "this song doesn't work."

In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?

I never forgive attacks on my work.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism