Buzz Osborne Quotes

It's good to get critiqued, so you can get better - and I want to do that.

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.

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

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

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

I know all the critics.

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

My policy is to not read any reviews.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Critics have their uses. They can crystallize a moment and bring into sharp relief the mistakes that have been made and what must be done to correct them.

Will Doctor Franklin be so good as to peruse it and suggest such alterations as his more enlarged view of the subject will dictate?

All criticism is constructive.

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

The audience is my hardest and best critic.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.