In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before. " But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.