Quotes About Precision

You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds.

When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.

I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

Cooking is exactly like making music.

When I drive there is not much emotion in there. I'm just trying to get everything right and get every lap, every corner perfect.

Corner is the easiest three in basketball.

It's quite easy in football when you can bang it into the top corner.

I'm ordinarily pretty correct in what I say.

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

When you hear something that's not correct, it really starts to irk someone.

Engineers aren't professional grammarticians, but they love correcting people. Even more, they love making you feel stupid.

Color correction is one of my things.

I think there's a correlation between mechanically being in the right place and the body moving the correct way to more balls being in the air, whether it's line drives or fly balls.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.

On short courses I can still play good, even with my added length.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I feel like, even if a guy is covered, I can put the ball where it needs to be so we can have a successful play.

I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.