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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

I think movies are too long.

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 don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

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

Movies are very subjective.