Learning to accept criticism

Learning to accept criticism

This particular part is very essential for you as a film maker if you want to survive in the industry. I have repeated this a lot of times that you should be able to learn how to accept the fact that your work cannot be loved by everyone, but try making it loved by  mass audience so that you can also be counted as one of the successful film makers in the industry. This might sound very easy, but trust me it is not very simple in future to accept if someone will dislike your work. At start either it might break you down, or might as well as hurt your ego. Even sometimes competition becomes the priority which for this reason sometimes can pulls you down in the industry. You have to learn from now how to face the world, and be strong enough to hear false comments about you. Taking this in a positive way, you can learn from your mistakes, and make your film even much better in the future, or also for the people who always are into criticizing your film you will have a reason because of them to get motivated, and stand up making a better film which will leave them scandalized as well. People in our world have much more difficulty in appreciating the work. As a film maker yourself if you watch a film made by another person surely you will search for the mistakes. I am not saying that this is a crime, as if you are in the same field it’s but obvious that automatically you will hunt and point out the mistakes. But in my point of view deliberately pointing out is really unnecessary. This is usually done by the people who are either jealous, or want to find their own way through demotivating other people. You have to build up your mentality so strong that none of those people and their criticism will effect you, and your work as well.

You can take criticism in a positive way where you will have a reason to improve, and also will become a better film maker. But if you will at that very moment feel bad, or stressed about the fact you being criticized, and as well as being less confident will be the sign of your survival being tough in the industry for the future. If I consider myself, yes sometimes I do feel bad when my work is not appreciated, but at the end of the day you should learn how to motivate yourself, and the next morning be awake with a much more improvised way of working. There will be many people who will come and criticize your work, and less people who will clap for you. But if you will be successful also in making one person applaud for you; surely you will slowly make many of them too. Being less emotional, and more practical in this field with a thick skin will help the most, and surely will also help you to learn how to become a much better film maker as well.