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The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

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

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.

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

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

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.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

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.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.