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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.