Episode #465 from 1:12:24
Handling criticism
I think you've spoken about that filmmakers, especially early on in their journey, critics and the audience can destroy them, meaning it creates too much of a burden, too much, just wear them down to where they're almost scared to be creative. Can you just speak to that how to ignore the critic? I'll tell you something that my best advice ever got early on, I was so fortunate, from an unlikely place because he's such, he sounded like Clint Eastwood when he said it, it was funny when you said that. But I got, I did Desperado and had Antonio Banderas, I brought Antonio to be in it from Europe, big action movie. And so Spielberg saw it and he said, "Hey, I want you to do Zorro with Antonio." So we're working on it for a while, I was working on the pre-production, got to work with Spielberg doing that. It ended up stalling because there was two studios involved and Amblin was moving or it was some weird thing where, but I got to work with him for about five months and I started getting really nervous because it's like, oh shit, you start thinking about, even movies of his that people would say, "Oh, Temple of Doom is not as good as Raiders." Have you seen Temple of Doom? I would kill to fucking do that movie.
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I think you've spoken about that filmmakers, especially early on in their journey, critics and the audience can destroy them, meaning it creates too much of a burden, too much, just wear them down to where they're almost scared to be creative. Can you just speak to that how to ignore the critic? I'll tell you something that my best advice ever got early on, I was so fortunate, from an unlikely place because he's such, he sounded like Clint Eastwood when he said it, it was funny when you said that. But I got, I did Desperado and had Antonio Banderas, I brought Antonio to be in it from Europe, big action movie. And so Spielberg saw it and he said, "Hey, I want you to do Zorro with Antonio." So we're working on it for a while, I was working on the pre-production, got to work with Spielberg doing that. It ended up stalling because there was two studios involved and Amblin was moving or it was some weird thing where, but I got to work with him for about five months and I started getting really nervous because it's like, oh shit, you start thinking about, even movies of his that people would say, "Oh, Temple of Doom is not as good as Raiders." Have you seen Temple of Doom? I would kill to fucking do that movie.