Quotes About Quality

Maryland is never going to be the low-cost place to live and work, and we shouldn't try to be because we have a lot of other stuff we bring to the table. And you get what you pay for.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Earlier, we had shows like 'Hasratein' and 'Shanti,' which had great storylines and mature content. Now, with a hundred shows running five to seven days a week, the TV industry has become very torturous and taxing for the actors.

I am not into the number games but wish to do meaningful roles.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium.

I can tell everything about a restaurant through their mussels. You have to work so hard to keep them perfect.

I really did retire to spend more time with my boys.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

After I finished working on the movie, I went back into the show again playing Riff, so it was an incredible time because I loved playing Riff in the theater and, of course, I loved playing Bernardo in the film. We had such a really beautiful time. We knew we were working on something of quality.

If you want to meet a better quality man, you're going to have to get used to taking more risks.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.