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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.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

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

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

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

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 don't want to make films for myself.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.