Mark Millar Quotes

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

Perfectionism is slow death.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'