I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
The critics don't bother me.
I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
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.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.