Buzz Osborne Quotes

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

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

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

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

The audience is my hardest and best critic.

Critics matter to me.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

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.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

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

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

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

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

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

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.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

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 don't read the critics.

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

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