Shane Black Quotes

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

I think naturally you want to judge things.

I give opinions, not advice.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

I know all the critics.

Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

My perspective will create my perception

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be