Art Quote by James Wolcott

Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like…

— Mark Lawson

I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know…

— George Lucas

“I think that's what changed you, Beth. Your job. The film critic. Critics are parasites. They live off other people's creativity. They bring nothing…

— Rainbow Rowell

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics…

— George Lucas

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and…

— Blythe Danner

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

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and…

— Richard Roeper

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

— John Landis

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

— Charles Bronson

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come.…

— Woody Allen

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack…

— Ethan Coen