While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.
Critics never build anything.
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.
I like constructive criticism from smart people.
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.
Don't just crit their siticising.
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
We need to know how to handle the criticism.
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
I still want to be sassy and critical, but I can do it without having to be mean or nasty.
I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.
