Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.