How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

No comparison. We're not going to compare, ... It's not needed. I'm not big on the comparisons.

To compare is not to prove

To compare is not to improve

There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]

Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]