History Quotes / ToughActToFollow

-->-- LetsPlay/{{Critikal}}, [[https://youtu.be/EAPQsgBRHlE?si=vqlSExzwQWq9LVhq&t=371 Moist Meter | Demon Slayer Season 3]]

->"Okay, so it's not the ''worst'' animated film out there, not even by [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation the studio's]] standards. So, why does it have all this hate. Well, you have to keep in mind about Shrek's popularity before ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' came in. His peak was at the level that only very few animated franchises ever achieve. ''Shrek 3'' was possibly the most anticipated and hyped-up film of 2007. So, when audiences would discover that, between ''2'' and ''3'', Shrek would go from being great to mediocre, they were ''beyond'' disappointed; I would even say that they were ''betrayed''. I can speak, as a witness, that it was at this point that the Shrek craze as 'the beloved animated film series' was pretty much dead."

->''[Upper Ranks 4 and 5] just really felt easy for them, whereas last season, it took everything every character in the fuckin' cast had just to keep up with Upper Rank 6. They had to dig deep into their soul and go [[Franchise/MyHeroAcademia Plus Ultra]] 50 times and pull out a thousand [[Franchise/DragonBall Spirit Bombs]] just to get close to killing Upper Rank 6. And that was the entire cast there fighting, basically. You had Tanjiro, Nezuko, the Hashira Tengen, Inosuke, Zenitsu, and of them having to go way past their limit in order just to fight the brother-sister combo which was Upper Rank 6. THAT felt like "Holy shit, that's a big villain. That's a very strong villain." Here, it's just a nuisance''.

She introduced herself, in fact, alluding to ageism with the frantic ''What You Waiting For?'', but single after single -and that album had lots of them-, she made clear that her project could give us a ''Cool'' and a ''Hollaback Girl''. And all her creativity was left there, all things considered. In a perfect first album that never had anything worthy of taking the baton from it again.''

->''It seems like there will always be new Franchise/{{Batman}} cartoons and new movies offering up new approaches to the character. And Creator/DCComics will keep doing crazy new crap to Batman [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman like pretending he's dead when he's really back in caveman times]]. The sad truth is that the pinnacle of Batman storytelling has already been reached, and anything that follows has been and will be but a shadow of perfection. The perfection of which we speak is ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

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->"I don't know what it is, but I feel like I'm in some sort of creative rot. This must be like what [[Creator/OrsonWelles Welles]] felt like after he wrapped ''Film/CitizenKane'' and complete an utter despair of genius as what to do next."
-->-- '''Martin''', ''WebAnimation/CartoonMonsoon'' '''Oh, Shoot!: Script, Cries and Videotape'''

->''In any successful artist’s career, there’s a moment where they transition from youthful hunger to having it made. It’s usually a rough point as well -- it’s rarely flattering for the artist. It’s where the spectre of 'I liked your old stuff better' really raises its head, and there’s a fairness to it, because that hunger and desperate, frantic need to get noticed and to succeed has a peculiar and enticing effect on art. When every book could be your last you scramble madly to write them, to say everything, to make an impact. Once you’ve properly, clearly succeeded, well… it’s not that you turn to crap, but there’s less urgency. You take a very different sort of risk. Failure isn’t quite as terrifying, and so you start creating things where the possibility of failure is accepted.''
-->--'''Dr. El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/04/q-of-damned.html on]] Creator/NeilGaiman

->''Creator/GeorgeLucas galloped into the [[TheEighties 1980s]] on a stallion made of diamonds and the tears of lesser men. After pummeling into submission everyone who ever told him his ideas were [[ItWillNeverCatchOn "terrible" and "unprofitable,"]] Lucas had Hollywood literally holding its breath to see what he would come up with next. What new gilded nugget of [[MerchandiseDriven merchandisable inspiration]] would erupt from his bearded skull like an oblong T-shirt cannon?... Studio heads were prepared to battle each other [[TheThunderdome on nitro cycles in Thunderdome]] just to see what Lucas was going to bring to the table. And ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' was what he came up with.''
-->--'''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-famous-filmmakers-whose-dream-projects-were-disasters/ "5 Famous Filmmakers Whose Dream Projects Were Disasters"]]

->''By definition, ''“Creator/LanceHenriksen fights serial killers and the concept of evil in America”'' will never be as popular as ''“[[Series/TheXfiles David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson fight aliens and monsters and weird stuff!]]”
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/04/07/millennium-season-1-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/Millennium1996''

->''In the end, ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' is one of the best car films of all time, and a fun, mindless chunk of entertainment. It’s Hal Needham’s best movie, which doesn’t bode well for me, since I have five more movies to go.''
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Tribute_to_Burt_Reynolds_Hal_Needham.aspx "How to Sink a Career in Five Easy Steps: A Tribute to the Films of Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham"]]

->''After twenty minutes I was psychically pleading with the Creator/FrancisFordCoppola of the past to calm the fuck down. In this case, I really don’t want someone trying to make the next ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]].'' I would rather have some unknown who is more content with telling a good story than going through [[EpicMovie a filmmaker mid-life crisis]].''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/tucker-the-man-and-his-dream-1988-francis-ford-coppola/ on]] ''Film/TuckerTheManAndHisDream'' (1988)

->''Maybe when you're someone like Creator/AndrewLloydWebber who has reached the pinnacle of your career and you've pretty much conquered every aspect of your chosen profession (made tons of money, earned lots of critical praise, won lots of awards, been sued by Faye Dunaway, etc. etc.) you just go "FUCK IT, BRING ON [[TotallyRadical THE RAPPING CATS!]]"''
-->--'''''[[http://jezebel.com/cats-to-get-hip-hop-makeover-featuring-rapping-cats-1601528638 Jezebel]]''''', "''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' To Get Hip-Hop Makeover Featuring Rapping Cats"

->"''Now that director Tom Hooper [[Film/TheKingsSpeech has won his Oscar]], Satan has returned to claim ''his'' [[DealWithTheDevil half of the deal.]]''"
-->--'''''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''''' on ''{{Film/Cats}}''

->"I read a review once that said, 'One good song can make an album, but one great song can ''kill'' it'.... 'Story of a Girl' isn't a great song, exactly, but it's certainly a career-killer. ''No one'' was interested in this band's other music, and, to be honest, I have no idea why you decided to watch this far into the review."
-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', "One Hit Wonderland"

->''"''I had the freak of luck to start high on the mountain and go down sharply while others were passing me''"--so [[Creator/NormanMailer Mailer]] wrote, describing the time after ''Barbary Shore'' when he unexpectedly joined the rest of us down on the plain.''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', "Norman Mailer: The Angels are White"

->"I think your lessons are learned instinctively and it becomes a problem if you start to have favorites or reject certain things. You have to be flexible--your failures are as important as your successes and your successes can freeze you as much as your failures can. It may be kind of a [[{{Koan}} hippie-sounding thing]] but I really believe it."
-->--'''Creator/WillemDafoe''', [[https://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=2866 2009 interview]]

->'''Beverly D'Angelo:''' You can't nostalgic for ten years earlier! Are ''you'' nostalgic for 1992?\\
'''Creator/JonFavreau:''' I am...\\
'''D'Angelo:''' Well, that's just depression. That's not nostalgia.\\
'''Favreau:''' ...but that [[GallowsHumor has more to do with my career.]]
-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsiXXqllOfI Dinner For Five]]''

->"It does not look remarkable different from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'', in my opinion. I think it is edited in the same way, the way it’s staged, the direction that they’re allowed to do, how they tell a story, the lighting scheme – a lot of it is very, very redolent of ''Next Generation''… It has not moved on with television. It’s still stuck in a very old groove."
-->-- '''Ron D. Moore''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''

->"Among big-time popstars, if they, you know, put out ten albums, around the fourth album, they can’t make very good songs. The albums sell, but everyone at the concerts wants to hear songs from those first three albums. Everyone."
-->-- '''Creator/ShigesatoItoi''' explaining why he will not make a fourth ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' game

-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/04/07/millennium-season-1-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/{{Millennium}}''

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->"''Now that director Tom Hooper has won his first Oscar, Satan has returned to claim ''his'' [[DealWithTheDevil half of the deal.]]''"

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->''Apparently the entire ["Enjoy the Ride"] campaign was sold on the anticipation of running [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QKK5IDSXE [the Barbie] ad]] because Nissan was never able to top it; each subsequent "Enjoy the Ride" ad carried diminishing returns. Their Super Bowl spot was a flock of pigeon puppets trying to catch a Nissan so they could poop all over it -- it got mixed opinions. Eventually Mr. K's dog took over the campaign and the slogan sort of changed to "Dogs Love Trucks." And from there it withered and died.''
-->--'''Website/PlatypusComix''', [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/ohatlanta.html The Ads of the Atlanta Olympics Were Weird]]

-->--'''''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''''' on '{{Film/Cats}}''

-->--'''''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''''' on '{{film/Cats}}''