David Thewlis Quotes

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

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.

I am my own biggest critic.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

You always look for certain things you can do better and what went wrong.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

I'm always my hardest critic.

More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

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

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.