Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

I'm neither excited nor worried when my film releases. As an artiste, I would definitely want people to like my work... that's why we are here. But I don't really sit up and look at reviews. I have never sat down to ponder over what others have to say.

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.