I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.
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Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.
With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.
I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.