'Martha' director R.J. Cutler responds to Martha Stewart's harsh criticism: 'It wasn't surprising'

"It takes a tremendous amount of courage on her part to trust me. I respect that. And in return, I share the film with her and have conversations with her about the film."

"It's very, very hard to be a subject in one of these films and to look at it with any sort of objectivity. And so, this is a process I understand and you have to be empathetic to the subject."

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