Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
You're not going to find me cringe from my record.
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
I sit down with my coach to watch past performances. But I can be very critical. I don't watch myself very often - it makes me cringe!
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.