In an
interview with
Movieline's Kyle Buchanan, Francis Ford Coppola talks about how he deals with criticism:
What I look for with critics is more that they’re going to write about something I did and I’m gonna read it and not make those mistakes again, I’m gonna learn something from it. Often, though, they don’t do that: they say, “It’s a muddled mess.” “It’s pretentious.” I can’t learn a lot from someone saying “It’s pretentious.”
(I'm sure most people will be more interested in the part of this interview where Coppola says there should have only been one
Godfather film.)