Quotes About Quality

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

I know what a good movie is.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

True, but if it's good it's going be so very, very good.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.