Criterion Quotes

My criterion for accepting a role isn`t based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

You just want to work. I like playing character roles and I do not mind being a real son-of-a-bitch, or embarrassing myself. But as you go along you begin to realize that the work has a criterion and as your choices get broader you start cutting out the things that are not worth the time. On the whole I have been lucky; I do not look back with a huge amount of distaste for the work I have done.

(On whether he operates camera in his movies): The criterion is when I want to see what`s going on through the lens. Usually, it comes down to performance more than technique...I`ve also worked with the same camera crews, even down to the assistants, on the last four films. (1999). So, we`ve developed a family in camera. A family that picks right up where they left off every few years. I see the world from the perspective of a 5`8" person, not someone who is 6`4". so naturally, I`m going to choose certain lens heights over and again...Sometimes nature makes choices for you.

What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival. - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia

Whenever I hear of young actors down and out and broke in New York, (and what a cliche of show business it is supposed to be!) I remember my own experiences in 1921 - and find it no laughing matter by any criterion.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

I believe that the testing of the student`s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

The winner`s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner`s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

When it comes to social consequences, they`ve got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it`s a difficult task.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Creating authentic recipes, served with traditional accompaniments and styles are the most important criterion in the presentation,

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth