Quotes About Quality

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

Really and truly, everyone just wants to be paid for what they've done, so they can continue to do it, and see your work in the highest production quality. TV offers that.

I accept offers only when people approach me with a good script, and all those experiences have been great.

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I want people to fall back in love with clothes like they did in the old days, and value what they buy a little more, and look after clothes better.

Unless its Michelin-starred food, people wont pay top dollar for top food so its hard to do good old-fashioned French cooking and get people to pay for it.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

I have very often held a view - and I am public about it - that if you run your operations inefficiently, you can't expect your consumer to pay for your inefficiencies.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough – more than enough, I should imagine.

Non vi sono libri morali o libri immorali. Vi sono libri scritti bene e libri scritti male, e nient'altro.

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.