Do you think directors watch their own movies and go, "Man, I'm so brilliant!"?
I can think of someone like Tarantino doing this.
shareAlan Smithee?
shareWouldn't it be the opposite? It's more like, "this piece of crap wasn't the film I wanted."
shareI always looked at it as, “wow, some jerkoff Hollywood douchebag with an ego ditched this film, now they use my name and I didn’t have to do a damn thing and my filmography kept growing until the year 2000....I’m fucking brilliant!”
“Wait, on second thought, maybe not...can’t I get paid?”