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I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

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.

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

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

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them.

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.