Everyone’s a critic.
This is a transcript of a script conference between Stalin and Eisenstein, working on Ivan the Terrible:
STALIN: I am not giving you instructions but expressing the viewer’s opinion. It is necessary that historical characters are reflected correctly…Ivan the Terrible raises his head too often, so that his beard can be seen…It was not correct that Ivan the Terrible kissed his wife so long…The viewer has grown up and we must show him good productions.
I think I’m gonna make a short play out of this.