This.

Also, when he took control of a book adaptation on his own, the horrible movie Maximum Overdrive, he took responsibility for the movie's failure and never directed again.

The only time when he has said that the movie is horrible and has no resemblance to his own word was with the Lawnmower man. And to be honest, the only parts of his short story that appear in the novel could have been deleted and not affect the whole movie at all.