Quotes About Critique

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

The producers of 'Mad Men,' you know, think I hate their show, which is true.

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

I like America to some extent.

I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.