Movie Critics Quotes

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad.

I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that I can detect, so I tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that I've come to respect. I like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because I very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.

Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.