Detractors Quotes

Cleveland backed the gold standard, which detractors believed hurt the farmers and small business owners. Sibley did not support that...(and) had the wherewithal to stand up in Congress and tell the president he was wrong.

(on the detractors of The Rules of Attraction (2002)) It does not matter to me if you hate the movie. What matters to me is if you are ambivalent. Anybody can do "thumbs up, thumbs down". That`s the real problem with film criticism today. It`s been reduced to "I like it, I dislike it". Criticism should be more of an examination of exactly why a film makes you feel the way you feel.

Gail didn`t want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times` enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.