Daily Inspiration Quote by Antoine Fuqua

There is a small, hard truth hiding inside Fuqua's looping confession: the only way to keep making work in public is to care and to self-protect at the same time. He grants critics and audiences real power ("I take them seriously"), then immediately builds a boundary ("I try not to read them"). That push-pull is the psychology of contemporary directing, where feedback is infinite, instant, and often unearned in its intimacy. You can be reviewed by The New York Times at noon and ratioed by strangers by dinner.

The repetition is doing the heavy lifting. "Personally" becomes a drumbeat, a refusal of the industry pose that creators are above judgment. Fuqua isn't performing monk-like detachment; he's admitting what most artists know and most PR training tries to erase: evaluation attaches itself to identity. A note about pacing lands like a note about worth. So "I don't read them" isn't disdain for criticism, it's harm reduction. He knows his own susceptibility, and he manages it the way anyone manages a trigger: less exposure, fewer spirals.

The slyest line is the jab at the fashionable claim of not caring. Fuqua calls that bluff, and it reads as both self-indictment and quiet critique of a culture that rewards faux-indifference. In an era where directors are brands as much as craftspeople, "not reading" is less about ignorance than agency - choosing which voices get to live rent-free in your head while you try to make the next thing.