Casey Affleck Quotes

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.