Quotes About Quality

There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

It's always better to work with a good filmmaker. It makes a lot of difference with the presentation of the film, which matters a lot at the end of the day. But I don't really concentrate on only big names.

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

I'm a believer in presenting something that is worth paying to see. I've always felt lucky in that the work that pleases me pleases other people as well.

One truth I've learned as a father: Children want presence more than presents. They don't want to read about you; they want you.

I pride myself on buying really good presents.

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.

Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

Even at its height, 'The Daily Show' would do one great show a week, one pretty good show a week, and then two 'meh' ones. It was filler.

I dont have a problem with taking photos on phones as they are pretty good quality now. But if you are really interested in creating more artistic images, it would be worth exploring a proper camera at some point!

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

I want to spend more time with my two daughters.

I think for young people, there are so many issues, not only student loan debt but health care and all these various issues that I believe can impact the quality of your life.

I don't think the Whataburger would dunk on the In-N-Out Burger, but I never really liked Whataburger or all the other burgers. McDonald's is decent, I guess, but no, the In-N-Out Burger kills them all.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.

I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?