#reviewer

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place. ↗

— Joan Didion

#criticism #film #movie #reviewers #movies

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#big #confidence #executives #fat #greek

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work. ↗

— John Grisham

#find #hate #i #i have learned #ignoring

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #cruel #destroy #different #even

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. ↗

— Kate Smith

#career #critics #extremely #i #lucky