Brendan Gleeson Quotes

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

Only great people can make great products.

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

A great idea is not enough.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

You can't cost-cut your way to greatness.

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.