Zadie Smith Quotes

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

I am a very thorough person.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

I never do anything by chance.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

I like to think of myself as detail-oriented.

If you're gonna do a job, do it properly.

After 2019, one thing that really stood out to me was, early on, not going too hard at the ball and allowing myself to get in without too much risk.

You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I didn't do it afterwards in a studio. I think that's how he operates. He likes it to be as real and as clear as possible.

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.