It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.
I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.