William Collins Quotes

Everybody is their own critic.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

Watching your own work doesn't get any easier.

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

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.

I am very, very aware at all times. I'm watching myself, I'm listening to myself, I'm judging myself, critiquing myself all the time, and I will know when I do something and I will immediately say, "Can I do another one, because I didn't quite get that thing," or that I wanted to do something there and it didn't quite work.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

I'm not good at watching myself.

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

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.