Quotes About Opinions

I've been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

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

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.

Different people choose different clothes and it correlates with their politics.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

I know I deal with it, I'm sure a lot of other people deal with it: you have that little funny dig you want to give on Twitter or you want to put in your column. Don't do it. it always undermines your argument.

You've got to listen to yourself, do what you think is best. Because if you listen to the critics, you might be going in all different directions.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

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.'

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

An idea you disagree with has to be fought with a better idea.

I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.

I'm sure that I'd be able to find a lot to disagree on with Eliot Engel.

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.