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Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received.

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

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

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 think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

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

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.