Quotes About Perfection

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

The greater jihad is proclaiming war on our ego's destructive and negative emotions and thoughts... which prevent us from attaining perfection.

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your goal, your driving principle.'

In Mexico, they didn't demand you controlled well, or they didn't get mad because of a bad pass. In La Masia, they demand perfection. Competition is the core principle.

I have done some bad things - things I can't and won't talk about. Nothing that bad, but if that stuff was printed in the papers, they'd paint me as a bad guy. I couldn't be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect. But I really don't want to be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn't want to argue with a producer.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.