Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Donner

There is a disarming humility in Donner admitting that his default setting is "narrow" and "subjective" - especially from a director, a job built on insisting that everyone else see what you see. The first sentence, "I'm open to comments", sounds like the polite boilerplate you hear in any creative room. Then he sharpens it: "objective points of view". That phrase does double work. It signals a desire for rigor (not just opinions, but observations that can withstand friction), and it also quietly acknowledges how easily film sets become echo chambers orbiting a powerful personality.

The kicker is the confession at the end: "because I've been very narrow and very subjective". Donner frames his openness not as virtue-signaling but as corrective maintenance. It's an artist admitting that taste can calcify into ego. Coming from a filmmaker associated with crowd-pleasing clarity - the muscular storytelling of Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon - the line reads like an origin story for that accessibility. Pop entertainment lives or dies by whether it communicates beyond the maker's private obsessions. "Objective" here is really shorthand for audience logic: what reads, what doesn't, what lands emotionally, what confuses.

There's also a generational subtext. Donner came up in an era of auteur mythmaking, when directors were sold as singular geniuses. This quote punctures that mythology. He isn't renouncing authorship; he's admitting authorship needs feedback loops. It's less therapy-speak than craftsmanship: the willingness to let other minds test your certainty before the camera makes it permanent.