Amitava Kumar Quotes

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I don't care for media or people being critical of me.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

No one likes to be criticized.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.