Robert Fulghum Quotes

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I always watch the work I do.

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

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

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

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

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

One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.

No one ever judges their own self.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

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

It's difficult to judge yourself.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

If I'm not happy with the quality of something I'm working on, I won't put it out. That does not mean that others won't question the quality.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

I am my own biggest critic.