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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, i tell you. because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
-Dennis Potter
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There's No End To The Inventiveness Of

Dennis Potter
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, i tell you. because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
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I read reviews of critics i respect and feel i can learn something from. right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that i can detect, so i tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that i've come to respect. i like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because i very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.
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I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. for non-fiction, i write happily on a computer, but for fiction i write by hand, because i'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. i'm not reading what i write when i wrote. it's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
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People think i'm against critics because they are negative to my work. that's not what bothers me. what bothers me is they didn't see the work. i have seen critics print stuff about stuff i cut out of the film before we ran it. so don't tell me about critics.
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There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. there is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. they don't criticize or analyze them. they simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.
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