Faith Salie Quotes

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

I keep an open mind when a script is narrated to me.

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'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

I know all the critics.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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

History is what we would make of it.

The historian must walk a fine line between scientific detachment and humanistic engagement.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.