Ariel Helwani Quotes

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

Beauty is less important than quality.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

I've been labeled all my life.

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

We want government to control business and industry enough to protect us as consumers from being cheated, but we oppose government interference in private enterprise. We want government to ensure standards and equality in education, but many of us balk at the idea of a government-imposed curriculum.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

I'm not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

It's very hard to rank performances. It's very difficult, and it doesn't really matter if you rank performances.

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.