Joseph Conrad Quotes

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

I was the World Champ, but I should be better.

I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I expect perfection from myself.