Alex Gibney Quotes

I don't read the critics.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

I have made a lot of movies, but I don't see any point in talking about films I don't think are terribly good. I have been in a few. I don't know any actor that hasn't.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

I like critics with strong opinions.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Generally, I respect critics; they have their job to do.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

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.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me—the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.