"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times……" — Ismail Merchant
"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."
More Critics Quotes
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's… — Kevin Bacon
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
- Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher