I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on...
No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong th...
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is, clearly film critics should have been running Austria at the time, be...
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I ...
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.
A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.
I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. Whe...
