Ridley Scott warns reading good reviews may harm directors.

He uses a review by Pauline Kael as an example in the opposite direction:

"...Scott says he respects critics but mostly uses his own taste as a barometer, a view of criticism that extends back 40 years, to when he released Blade Runner to some blistering reviews, including a four-page pan in The New Yorker in which Pauline Kael wrote that “Scott seems to be trapped in his own alleyways, without a map.” Blade Runner would go on to inspire a generation of filmmakers and be selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. Scott would go on to be nominated for three Academy Awards for directing, for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and to be knighted at Buckingham Palace in 2003. Yet Kael’s scathing 1982 Blade Runner review still hangs in a frame in a conference room at Scott’s company. “The worst thing to do is read your critique and it’s great,” Scott says. “That’s very dangerous, because you think you’re walking on air. What I’ve learned is you’re never walking on air. You’re always slightly dotty. I always think, ‘I don’t quite know everything.'”