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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

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

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

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

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.