Critic Quote by Francois Truffaut

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

— Quentin Tarantino

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

— Alexandre Desplat

I'm not sure I would want to be a filmmaker, because I've seen how many people they have to go through in order to…

— Lucas Hedges

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my…

— David Slade

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer…

— John Cusack

I'm a person who takes criticism personally and that had put doubts in my mind about doing a film. I tried to overcome it…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film…

— Park Chan-wook

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

— Michael Showalter

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

— Alex Gibney

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I…

— Pauly Shore

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

— James Franco