Common denominator Quote by Clive Barker

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody…

— Michael Bay

'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away…

— Clive Barker

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not…

— Richard Linklater

I'm afraid I don't look at reviews or anything like that, but you get an immediate sense from the audience that they've had a…

— Harry Hadden-Paton

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

— Willard Scott

At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie.…

— George A. Romero

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

— Mack Brown

The critics didn't like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. 'Point Blank' marked…

— Donald E. Westlake

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're…

— Joe Pantoliano

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

— James Gray

Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like…

— Mani Ratnam

Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it,…

— Craig Mazin