Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse
A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.
I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that I can detect, so I tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that I've come to respect. I like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because I very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.
I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.
A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.
I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.
For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.
I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.
