Adrian Tomine Quotes

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

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

I'm still very critical of myself in film.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic. I can say things which nobody will ever dare say. Even the best of friends will stop at a point, whereas I can go beyond.

The more we focus on what everyone else is doing wrong, the less energy we have to fix what we're doing wrong.

I'm always my worst critic.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Everybody is their own critic.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I have a tough time judging myself.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

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

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.