Quotes About Criticism

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Paul Newman is not a very good pool player.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told that they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.