Quotes About Evaluation

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

Few great men could pass personnel.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

Never ask people about your work.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?