"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Criticism, Ridicule

"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Jim Bishop, American Journalist

Criticism, Writer

"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Criticism, Observation, World, Worth

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Criticism, Poetry, Quality, Humor

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Evangelism, Force, Culture, Critique

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Criticism, Catholicism

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Criticism, Ego, Power, Superiority, Bias

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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

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"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

Experience, Time, Comfort

"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."

Business, Time, People, Living

"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."

Movies, Years

"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."

Time, Talk, Years

"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

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"I always say the next one is my favorite."

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."

"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."

"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."

"I get a great high from writing."

"I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan."

"I've always wanted to do a boxing movie."

"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."

"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."

"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

"I always say the next one is my favorite."