Quotes About Self-critique

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

I am very critical about the way I look.

I cannot watch my performance as an audience because whenever I watch anything that I am a part of, I watch critically.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Deconstructing your performance is the curse an actor has to live with. That's why I don't watch my films.

If any one shall ask in the meantime, who I am that so boldly censure others, have I no faults? Yes, more than thou hast, whatsoever thou art.

Today, though, each faith community suffers from a decline of one or the other aspect of religious vitality. Modernity has not been kind to Jewish spirituality: Large parts of the Jewish people have become severed from basic faith and devotion. The Muslim world has the opposite problem: an erosion of open inquiry and self-critique.

We often hate or ridicule something that we believe to represent an integral part of our selves, our own character that we dislike internally. It's a dichotomy that we can't and won't hate anything that is truly outside our element. We're surely our own worst critics.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

It is for Irishmen to criticize the absurdities of Irish nationalism, Welshmen those of Welsh nationalism, Englishmen those of their own brand – which are harder to detect than the others, at any rate for themselves. Nobody else can do it for them. This may be difficult, unpopular, and at times even hopeless, but the nation which lacks internal critics is lost, like Germany in Hitler's days.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

I can be a better defender. It's one of those things where I like to always find something wrong so I can get better.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

I watch a lot of tape. Anytime I have a match on TV, I watch it back, 10-20 times alone.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and watch myself on screen, I find multiple reasons to redo that scene. That's an occupational hazard that most actors face. You can never come to terms with it.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.