When you make the audience the critic, though, when you start asking them to speak about the film, all these weird moments that are way out of the ordinary, that we do a lot of in our pictures, they don't hold up to critical analysis from an untrained professional critic very well.
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Related Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The minor has a number of courses in film history and analysis that are just as important as the pro... DR. WENDY OLIVER My father was an engineer, ... But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free... ROGER CORMAN The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analy... EMILY OSTER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL DOROTHY PARKER You take Sam out of the equation and they continue to play well. It says a lot about our depth. LOU PLANK Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind... HAROLD BLOOM I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that whe... GLEN HANSARD You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even thoug... TOM TANCREDO They give you a lot of hope and a lot of confidence. From a coach's perspective, when you put them o... MARK MAZZOLENI He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said. J.R.R. TOLKIEN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having work... ATOM EGOYAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrigh... SAM CLAFLIN As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kin... KARA HAYWARD May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way t... YURI HERRERA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of l... BARRY LEVINSON until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Ac... ALAN RICKMAN I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many que... GURJEET SINGH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... These movies are asking sensitive questions about racial intolerance and Middle East politics. It's ... STEVEN SPIELBERG You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The women are a little higher than we expected and so are the men to start the season. I figured we ... CURTIS FRYE It's not particularly surprising that these ads didn't do as well when you consider they are talking... BEN STUART You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. JOHN J. PLOMP Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourse... IMAN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co... VIKRAM SETH You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. JOHN PLOMP You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers JOHN J. PLOMP Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [It is not an ode to the '60s R&B legends and their lead singer.] A lot of these songs are our respo... PETE WENTZ When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you sta... JONATHAN GLAZER It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art. STEVE MARABOLI There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ... ANITA BROOKNER There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but ... ANITA BROOKNER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES When you start talking about why something happened or why it was done a certain way on a project, t... TOM HAMILTON They came out very prepared and we missed lot of tackles. We have to start on Monday and watch the f... CHRIS TUCKER There are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot. AMAN JASSAL I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. Tha... ROBERT MITCHUM The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are v... ERIC RIGNOT I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really g... DANNY STRONG When you hear a lot of stories about Africa, and you get to a place like Kenya and other countries l... THURGOOD MARSHALL If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a ... BEN BRANTLEY 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House ... WALTER BAGEHOT Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the character... ALAN DEAN FOSTER Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI That says a lot about Sam Raimi. He's kept me in the loop the entire time. Especially doing 'Spider-... STEVE NILES We didn't give up, which is nice. These kids want to win; they are just young in a lot of ways. I to... BOB CURRAN I can't fault our guys on their hustle. They won every hustle category. ... But where we're messing ... BOB WEISS You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. JOHN PLOMP The easiest way to sum up the relationship between the drivers and NASCAR is that we are pawns on a ... TONY STEWART Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them. BRITNEY SPEARS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Fear is an unobtrusive freebee that comes unchallengeably with every thought & action. ANUJ SOMANY The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way
they will speak of us to our grandchild... GENE CRAWFORD My first relationship is with my brother. If I cannot maintain any relationship with him and I canno... APURVA GAGLANI We talk about time travellers, but if you think about it we are already time travelling every second... GARY F EVANS... We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of ... MICHEAL MACLIAMMOIR We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of ... JULES RENARD Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, li... FORREST CURRAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. Al... THEO JAMES Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done wi... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop be... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing wha... SYLVESTER STALLONE Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the r... LEIGH BARDUGO Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ... P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ... P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ... P. G. WODEHOUSE Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ... P.G. WODEHOUSE
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SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. 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