“When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought...” — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quote

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.

Critics tend to praise as well as crucify you.

There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.