critique quotes

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University – that I don’t like.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.