Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

The self is hateful.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

I was my worst critic ever.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.