Little retorts like these makes a good producer what he is: someone who beats off criticism off his shoulders and fights harder to put them to shame. I guess it also shows you have to laugh at the face of the devil and tell him your better than that. If it were I I would say,

"It's the reaction of the stupid."

As for his reaction to the critics' somewhat tepid reception of the film--Matrix Reloaded, Silver shrugged it off and said, "It's the shock of the new."

Indeed it is.