The audience is my hardest and best critic.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism.
When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.
I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't.
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.
I'm a perfectionist, and I very rarely satisfy myself when I come in and watch the film the next day.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
